Safari Browser Slower than Dial-up

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Safari Browser Slower than Dial-up

I have Monterey 12.7.6 on a MacBook Pro 2016. For about a year now, Safari has been slower than imaginable to load any webpage. I do have a great FIOS connection, I do not have insane numbers of tabs open, I have cleared the cache, and nothing helps. I recall the slow connections long ago with dial-up, and this is worse than that. I'm starting to think that Safari is just a bad browser. Sadly, it has all my passwords, so if I go to a different browser, it will be a huge task to import all of those.

Has anyone found a way to speed up Safari? TIA!

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Mar 24, 2025 6:05 AM

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John Galt

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Mar 24, 2025 6:25 AM in response to musictchr

Consider the fact you are using an approximately nine year old Mac to load websites typically designed on current production high end $10,000+ workstations by developers paid to impress the clueless managers who sign their paychecks. You are not their concern.

Read If Safari doesn't open a page or work as expected on your Mac - Apple Support. There are quite a few possibilities to address.

EtreCheck may provide some actionable information. Instructions: How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report - Apple Community

Needless to say, if you are using any non-Apple "anti-virus", "cleaning", or "Internet security" products including "banking security", anything at all in that broad category of utterly useless garbage, don't. A lot of things won't work if you do. And if you are using a VPN, don't.

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