As soon as I launch safari, the HD will begin thrashing continuously for no apparent reason, it will do this for ~10 minutes (constant thrashing) and the noise alone is very annoying. As soon as I close Safari, the thrashing stops and everything is quiet again. Then I relaunch Safari and it starts thrashing again. It's driving me CRAZY! No other browser behaves this way. Does anyone else have similar problems with Safari and is there any way to "shut it up"?
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Safari Won't Shut Up
- Thread starter Burnsey
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Yes, it doesn't even matter if I just leave it idle on Google. It's as if something in the background is causing the disk to thrash as soon as I launch Safari. I have re-installed it once already and no changes.
Have you tried resetting Safari? you will find the menu item in the menubar for Safari called "Safari" then "Reset Safari". Then tick everything if not ticked.
You might need to delete com.apple.finder.plist or com.apple.safari.plist in ~/Library/Preferences. Also, com.apple.loginwindow.plist and com.apple.systemuiserver.plist wouldn't hurt if you deleted them also. Make sure you copy them to the desktop before deleting, in case something goes wrong. Have you looked at how much CPU Finder and Safari are using?