Safari 14

par · September 25, 2020, 7:57am

I upgraded to Safari 14 last week and it kept crashing; system itself was also slowing down with beach balls spinning. Looked at the Crash Reports in the Console and saw that com.apple.Safari.SafeBrowsing.Service was crashing regularly. Did a Google search and found an Apple discussions thread from 2016 (!) that explained how to fix a similar sounding problem. Tried it - and it cleared everything up.

richardlefko · September 25, 2020, 11:37am

Ran Malwarebytes…did nothing.
tried the command…
All I got was a bunch of denied msg.
Where is the folder?

Still runs like crap…

Thanks

Simon · September 30, 2020, 2:33pm

Did I just miss it in the release notes or did Safari 14 introduce a new pulldown menu to specify find criteria (contains vs. begins with)?

Simon · October 1, 2020, 10:27pm

Source: https://mrmacintosh.com/mojave-2020-005-security-update-causing-major-problems-updated/

ashley · October 3, 2020, 12:37pm

I don’t think so. I’m still using Safari 13.0.4 on 10.13.6 and I have a pulldown menu to the left of the Find field with “contains” and “starts with” options.

Simon · October 5, 2020, 2:09pm

Thanks, @ashley. I must have just missed it in that case. Looked new to me at the time.

JimLeff · October 5, 2020, 10:12pm

FWIW I’m running Safari 14 in Catalina on a new-ish Mac Mini with no problems at all, including exporting PDFs

mike_joseph · January 14, 2021, 7:59pm

Delayed question: Ever since installing Safari 14, lots of strange items have been showing up in the website privacy preferences that never used to show up before. They’re just URLs, with no indication of what they are (cache, cookies, etc.) Not that I’m really concerned, but they sure make for a lot more items to clear out occasionally.

Any idea where they come from?