I can't believe the recommended solution is "backup and reinstall your operating system".
A browser shouldn't be so integral, that if it breaks the only option is to wipe your computer and start again.
The seniors on there that are beside themselves unable to use some of their sites is something I think of when designing software.
Your users aren't always tech savvy. Sometimes quite the opposite. A single change, even if it isn't a bug, can render your program unusable by some because it's so different.
Font smoothing is messed up too. For some utterly inexplicable reason, starting with Big Sur Apple turned on font smoothing by default, and then removed the toggle in settings to turn it off, despite the fact that it looks like complete crap.
However, you can run a Terminal command to disable it again, which works great...except for the new version of Safari, where all the fonts look ridiculously bold [0]
[0] https://imgur.com/a/IJBGjHu The top comment of this thread; Safari on the left, Firefox on the right.
Everything works for me (Mojave with Safari 14.1).
I'm not saying the problem doesn't exist and/or that it's not Apple's fault, but, possibly, it's not strictly related to Safari.
DEBUGGING MINDSET: On MacOS, this Safari update was pushed along a MacOS update. (and maybe in iOS as well, along the 14.5 iOS?). How can you say the problem is within Safari? There's even a user complaining about a problem in Apple mail (a network timeout).
This problem could lie anywhere in the network stack, and maybe Safari is using a specific pattern that triggers the bug very often on some specific hardware. It could be a driver issue for what we know.
Now I'm trying to update my other machine (2015 Macbook Pro 15").
The error message that Safari is showing means that the web content process is crashing. This should leave logs in ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports (easily viewable in Console, under "Crash Reports"). Without those it's unlikely that anybody will be able to provide any further information as to what is happening here.
Slightly off topic rant: Safari’s dev tools are completely unusable too: most of the times the line number of a (JS) error is absent or wrong, especially if the error originates from an ES module (I submitted several bugs to webkit).
It’s a browser I want to love – especially for its performance – but it’s becoming harder.
Is this really a big thing? I went expecting hundreds of angry comments but there are 11 comments in this discussion and 11 on the macrumors discussion that someone mentioned?
What is completely broken for me since macOS 11/iOS 14 update is iCloud tabs. They simply don't sync between Mac and iPhone anymore, the list is almost always empty. Sometimes it contains some random out-of-date links, but touching any of them make them all disappear.
Another discussion at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/safari-14-1-is-complete...
Apple should work on being able to update Safari, Podcasts, etc independently of the OS.
New bugs in OS + new bugs in Safari is not a good combination.
This happens to me every day of the week on various sites, multiple times a day. I assumed it was because I had a large number of tabs open (anywhere from 50 to 200), but it's very frustrating. Only thing I can do is quit Safari and re-open, then it goes away for a few hours, then it'll happen again. After a few rounds of that my only choice is to restart the iPad. That buys me a few more hours, but it eventually happens again. Supremely frustrating. Started happening maybe a year ago, never once happened before that. My guess is poor quality control or testing on an update, bug or memory leak was introduced and just never fixed. Very frustrating. Apple stuff is supposed to "just work" but in this case, the browser crashes multiple times a day which is an awful user experience.
I got the "a problem repeatedly occurred" error in Mobile Safari on iOS 14.5 just a moment ago when playing with this demo: https://replidraw.vercel.app/d/orx5hodjsll
This happened to my dad when he upgraded the other day and I spent hours painstakingly trying to fix it and it seems like the recommended fix is reinstalling OSX. Well, he's on Firefox now but what the fuck - this basically affects all the websites he goes to. I can't believe this made it out through testing.
Well, I'm running 14.1 and it seems fine. So, as usual with these hyperbolic titles, the problem is either something else, or a combination of separate issues.
Can’t say I’ve had any significant issues yet other than it duplicating all of my bookmarks after the upgrade for some reason.
Is it possible to downgrade Safari to a previous working version?
When was the last time it was usable?
Is HN the new torch and pitchfork store?
Apple's premier operating system is worse than Windows 95. How the mighty have fallen.
macOS isn't a growth area for Apple. It's a legacy product, which no longer has it's own team, and macOS contributes to a tiny portion of Apple revenue. It basically only exists for software developers. Apple's advertising pushes people who were thinking about laptops to use iOS devices.
Not saying macOS wasn't great. It was. But Apple aren't investing in it anymore.
I had a user report exactly this on my site this week (https://cycle.travel/map), but iOS 14.5 rather than MacOS. I upgraded my iPad and could reproduce it trivially.
The cause was calling focus/setSelectionRange on a textfield within a click handler. When I commented these out then the problem disappeared.
Not a rare combination and I’d have thought beta-testing should have flushed this out, but there you go.
Edit:
If you want to try reproducing this, go to https://cycle.travel/map/mobile?debug=1 , and click within the 'From' or 'To' field. It crashes every time on my iPad running iOS 14.5.