Safari Issues

[trilo]

Since updating to the later versions of Sequoia, I’m having significant issues with Safari not correctly displaying pages - typically completely removing navigation bars. The fact it happens on multiple sites but is fine with other browsers suggests a Safari issue.

Here’s a couple of examples. This is my car club site displayed in Chrome:

and in Safari with the navigation missing

Here’s our major hardware chain site in Chrome:

and in Safari - once again noting the top navigation bar is completely removed

I’ve also seen issues with Safari simply not rendering pages like Facebook:

FWIW I’ve turned off all adblockers and Safari extensions, cleared caches and tried in Private windows. This wasn’t happening prior to later Sequoia updates.

Is anyone else seeing issues with Safari? I’m very reluctant to switch to Chrome or Firefox (I dislike both) but as it stands now Safari is badly broken for me.

[Shamino (David C.)]

Do you have an ad blocker installed that may be removing these page elements? I see the Ad Blocker Plus extension is installed on your Safari (at least its toolbar icon is present), but not on your Chrome installation.

What do you see if you disable it for the page in question?

[mpainesyd (Michael Paine)]

I don’t have specific examples but I have noticed some web pages have missing elements in Safari. In most cases I managed to fix this by reloading the web page or quitting and restarting Safari.

I don’t have any ad blockers but have used “Hide distracting items” from time to time. Maybe that feature has left some stray bytes that cause this issue?

[aforkosh (Alan Forkosh)]

It could be a problem with an extension. I had that same issue for some websites and found that disabling a certain extension (I think it was Stop the Madness) fixed the problem.

For those websites (which had a photo on top, I would open the website in another broser, navigate to the page I wanted and then copy the link back to Safari.

[Incompatible]

I checked those sites in Safari Version 18.4 (20621.1.15.11.10)), and they looked good to me; the navigation bars look like they’re there.

If it’s not an extension maybe it’s an aggressive custom stylesheet?

[trilo]

@aforkosh

It could be a problem with an extension. I had that same issue for some websites and found that disabling a certain extension (I think it was Stop the Madness) fixed the problem.

Stop the Madness was the first thing I turned off as I’ve had some little issues with it in the past. I’ve turned all others off but I’m thinking I might actually remove them to see if it resolves it.

[trilo]

@Incompatible

I checked those sites in Safari Version 18.4 (20621.1.15.11.10)), and they looked good to me; the navigation bars look like they’re there.

If it’s not an extension maybe it’s an aggressive custom stylesheet?

Thanks for checking. This is the same version as I have. I don’t use custom style sheets. It definitely sounds like removing the extensions is going to need testing.

[alvarnell]

@trilo

I might actually remove them to see if it resolves it.

I would be shocked if it did since you already turned them all off.

[trilo]

@alvarnell

I would be shocked if it did since you already turned them all off.

I agree but I’m running out of ideas.

[trilo]

OK, I removed all extensions and reloaded them one by one. The culprit was AdBlockPlus and even though I had turned it off, it was still causing an issue.

Happily I can report updating the extension (from .18 to .19) resolved the issue. Thanks for everyone’s suggestions.

[schnell]

Safari 18.4 - looks fine. What version of safari ? I am using an Adblocker too 1Blocker.

[graham.mitchell]

Rather than using ad blocker extensions browsers you might want to take a look at https://pi-hole.net. I have it installed on my TrueNAS box. It’s effective.