Since updating to Ventura Safari is buggy

I'm running Ventury 13.2.1 on iMac with Apple M1 chip and 16 GB of ram. I find that I can't upload or download anything. I get a screen that looks like it's going to search my computer either for a place to save it to, or to upload from, but it freezes Safari. I can't close the window, the buttons in the upper left are greyed out, and there is no save button. I try closing Safari (command W) and it won't quit I have to actually go out to force quit in the apple menu. It is forcing me to use another browser, which I can do, but Safari should work. Is this a known bug that is being fixed? is anyone else experiencing this?