How to Fix a Slow Safari
Method 1
- In Safari, go to Safari-> Preferences
- Select on "Extensions"
- Toggle the slide to the off position
Method 2
- In Safari-> Preferences
- Select on "Privacy"
- Next to "Cookies and other website data:" click on "Remove All Website Data..."
Method 3
- Check your bookmarks
- Verify that the bookmarks listed are actually your bookmarks and aren't an unintentional list of tens of thousands of links that are actually the sites you've visited
- If it turns out what's listed in bookmarks is a history list and not your intended bookmarks, select them all and delete them.
Method 4
- Delete the cache.db for Safari.
- Go to users/library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/
- Check the size of the file Cache.db.
- Delete the file.
- Delete the folder fsCacehdData
- Restart Safari.