Safari beach ball after upgrade to Ventura

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Safari beach ball after upgrade to Ventura

After upgrading from Monterey to Ventura 13.2, I am experiencing a random beach ball (temporary freezing) event when using Safari. Does not happen frequently, maybe 2 - 4 times a day. To recreate: I am in a private (populated) window and then attempt to click on the menu bar at the top of the screen (Safari File Edit ... Help). The menu bar is unresponsive and when I click back to the private window, I see the spinning beach ball. Everything related to Safari is frozen. Usually after a few seconds, all is back to normal, responsive. (Actually, a menu (such as File) might pop up, that I attempted to click 10 seconds ago, for example.)

This is on a 2018 Mac mini 3.2 GHz i7, 16 GB, 1 TB SSD with two 2 TB HDDs.

No extensions installed into Safari.

Mac mini, macOS 13.2

Posted on Feb 7, 2023 08:33 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 7, 2023 10:27 AM in response to confuciousDayzd

confuciousDayzd wrote:

After upgrading from Monterey to Ventura 13.2, I am experiencing a random beach ball (temporary freezing) event when using Safari. Does not happen frequently, maybe 2 - 4 times a day. To recreate: I am in a private (populated) window and then attempt to click on the menu bar at the top of the screen (Safari File Edit ... Help). The menu bar is unresponsive and when I click back to the private window, I see the spinning beach ball. Everything related to Safari is frozen. Usually after a few seconds, all is back to normal, responsive. (Actually, a menu (such as File) might pop up, that I attempted to click 10 seconds ago, for example.)

This is on a 2018 Mac mini 3.2 GHz i7, 16 GB, 1 TB SSD with two 2 TB HDDs.

No extensions installed into Safari.

Quit Safari and relaunch it... compare your results

If necessary hold the Shift key down when you launch Safari and test

If Safari on Mac doesn't open a webpage or isn't working as ...

if no insight or resolve try a differnt browser and compare your results.

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Answer 2

Feb 7, 2023 04:16 PM in response to leroydouglas

I tried the first two suggestions.

The first (quit and relaunch) prior to opening this thread. Did not seem to help. I mean, sometimes the problem might not happen for hours or the rest of the day.

I have been running with the Shift + start Safari method since seeing your post. No problems in Safe mode. I restarted normally about a half hour ago. So far, no problems. But that is not unusual because there seems to be no rhyme or reason for the problem.

It's irritating but not debilitating so I guess I will live with it and see what happens in fix pack 3.

Thank you; I appreciate you reaching out.

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Safari beach ball after upgrade to Ventura

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