There is one website my new M1 Macbook Air cannot access at all on Safari and very slowly on Chrome. It works fine on an older computer also running Big Sur, and works on my iPad. It is a competitor to this site but I often reference both. Mac-forums.com isn’t anything dangerous and I cannot fathom why the M1 MacBook dislikes it.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
There is one website my new M1 Macbook Air cannot access
- Thread starter reeney
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Are you trying to sneakily promote this website?
Maybe your old computer had manual dns set and new one doesn’t. Or VPN? I know some websites don’t work with VPN.
Last edited:
It might be worth deleting the first two in that list, making a note of them in case you want to put them back later.
See if things improve.
See if things improve.
Have you got a vpn installed? Does this happen with WiFi, Ethernet, or both? If it happens with both, how about using your iphone as a hotspot for the Mac and see if the site loads.
Did you try accessing the other site as soon as you opened the new Mac, or was if after you installed all your programs? Do you have any Safari extensions installed? And even though you said Malwarebytes only runs manually, try closing the app manually, close Safari, reopen Safari and see if the site loads.
I certainly didn’t try the website until setting up the Mac.
I don’t have anything unusual on my computer. I have Quicken and Dropbox and Feedly and Office 365. The only Safari extensions are Rakuten and Honey...both shopping add ons that find coupons. I closed Malwarebytes and it made no difference.
I don’t have anything unusual on my computer. I have Quicken and Dropbox and Feedly and Office 365. The only Safari extensions are Rakuten and Honey...both shopping add ons that find coupons. I closed Malwarebytes and it made no difference.
Since you first started using the new Mac, have you had problems loading any other site, or has it just been the one in question?
Curious, I just hopped onto the M1 Mini we have in the office and on Safari it was no problem accessing www.mac-forums.com. No special things loaded or safari extensions.
Restarted many times. Cleared cookies last night and then had to sign in to everything again.
I have no problems accessing the site. Try opening a private browser window. If it works, then perhaps you have a cookie or some other setting that carried over from your previous setup that is interfering with the browser.
Oh dear...that was my best theory. Can you see the DNS server it uses...maybe I could try it?
Is it possible the site has your IP address blocked? Sometimes forum sites automatically do that if you enter the wrong password a number of times. Check with the administrator perhaps. Also you could test that theory by trying a VPN and loading the site, it should work through a VPN