Safari 17.5 on my MacBook Pro freezes intermittently

I'm having this bug (a tab occasionally freezes in Safari) for about half a year. I'm on MacBook Pro 16" 2019 (Intel). The bug first appeared on Sonoma and it's still appearing on Sequoia. I reinstalled macOS Sequoia from scratch about a week ago and I'm still seeing it. I sent a bug report to Apple's Feedback Assistant (FB15******). If you want the bug to be fixed - please file a bug report too.

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What I asked you, Is your MacBook pro is using an Intel processor or an apple M chip? If you click on the apple on the top left screen, then click on the "about this mac" You will see if it is an Intel or M chip. It will be listed next to Processor. If you know what year your MacBook will also help with that! MacBooks made before 11/2020 used Intel processors!

I have run into all of the same problems described above making Safari difficult and in some cases impossible to use. There are other anomalies too - always expanding a video to full screen, zooming on amazon no longer works properly, sometimes forms cannot be filled out properly without refreshing, sometimes refreshing doesn't work either. I've had to switch to Brave or Chrome to complete some tasks. Please fix asap.

I am facing this as well. When browsing content for my work, its very frustrating when this happens as i need to close the tab and reopen the page and scroll back. It has been happening for a month approximately.

I have the latest updates. Same Safari version as you.

I also notice Safari being very slow in some websites such as when using WIXe's editor. When trying that with Chrome everything run smoothely. I have no idea if that has any connection to this problem.

Too bad for the "Fastest browser in the world".

I am having the same problem! Safari freezes up and I have to close Safari. I called Apple support a month ago and got no were with them. Come on Apple fix this please. It did come from an update to Sonoma. Please fix this as I still under warranty! 2019 I9 - 2.4 GHZ!

I came here hoping for a solution, but sad to see it hasn't yet been addressed. To narrow down the problem a bit more, and something rather odd about it, is that when a browser window stalls, I can open a NEW browser window and that new window works fine, but the old window will remain locked up. It's incredibly annoying.

This is really a SCAM !!! :-( -> Had to move to Chrome for several usages !

MBP 16" i9 2.4 (2019)

Sonoma 14.7 (but occurring since months now...), Safari 18.0.1

Given the number of people affected (just google for it), and the number of months that have past since this was reported, the only explanation is that Apple just doesn't care !!

Maybe only affecting Intel CPU's ?

darkstar49: Safari froze on me just a few minute ago with similar conditions as you. It also happened a few days ago but I thought it was a one-off.

MBP 15" i7 (2018), 32GB

Sonoma 14.7, Safari 18.0.1

I use both Firefox and Safari, but I'm going to use Firefox as my default browser now.

Happening to me as well. Was hoping I'd find a solution here. I'm running Sequoia 15.1.1. Very very frustrating. It happens about 5-10 times a day. Just started a few months ago. Apple needs to fix this!!!

Ooops my bad!! Feeling a bit stupid over here lol. It is most definitely an Intel (2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9) My laptop is a 2018 15-inch MBP. I tried the closing of the tab & undoing it, but that didn't work for me. The page would not re-load.

Same problem using Mac mini 2018 w 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 w 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 memory......only fix is closing and reopening Safari and losing everything I was doing at the time....maddening so I often just move to Chrome.

Any solutions to this incredibly frustrating problem?

I have this since like 2 or 3 months. I hate it! Starting to think about switching browser.

I am having the same issue on my MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 64 Ram