Slow safari browser

[AlexRRR]

My safari browser on Mac has been getting slower and slower sometimes it just can't open a page, might be something to do with the junky sites like Yify and a few sites i watch football for free on, you get plastered with pop ups.

Done a quick search on the net but haven't found anything helpful, from a test i ran recently and I've forgotten what it was the computer showed up fine...but no way is it fine, thought of getting chrome or one of those browsers but i really dont want to.

I checked my hard drive of 1TB its around 550gig....any ideas or knowledge to clear thi sup would be very helpful.

[samuijimmy]

Why not just download Chrome for Mac and try it... see if any improvement... If you don't like it you can always uninstall it...

I've not used Safari in years.... I find most third party programs for Mac are better than most stuff from Apple....

[rhythmworx]

Safari is a terrible browser IMO, I ditched it and switched to firefox, with the adblock plus plugin.

You could try this https://www.macissues.com/2015/06/22/how-to-fully-reset-safari-on-your-mac/

Maybe removing it from icloud might help, I never really use that so don;t know.

[AlexRRR]

Thanks guys, Chrome is super fast and i like to do a run on that website but afraid i will loose a few things so for now chrome will do.

[Bill3173]

I use Safari with the latest OS X 10.11.4 Previously I preferred firefox, but now I prefer the latest version of Safari, and also find it quicker.

Have you tried clearing the cache? To do this, in the menu bar, go to Safari / Preferences / Advanced. In the advanced window check "Show Develop

Menu in menu bar". Now go the the Develop in the menu bar and select "Empty Caches". I have found this to help in the past (Usually Thai Visa).

There are other options also, such as disable Javascript, Extensions, etc.

Regards.