Will CroftIs anyone else experiencing insanely slow address bar autocomplete behaviour after updating to Safari 26 on macOS 15.7 Sequoia (ie not Tahoe)? Infuriating!
eurozerozero@willcroft Yes!
@eurozerozero Glad I'm not alone—maddening!
@willcroft Yeah. And after a while, even just clicking on the address bar to make it active becomes sluggish for me.
@eurozerozero Same, everything just slows to a crawl and eventually letter-by-letter typing starts to beachball. Will report back if I find a culprit/fix. Hoping for a speedy 26.0.2. Perhaps @jensimmons would know if this is a known bug or worth reporting?
@willcroft @jensimmons I ended up submitting this as FB20414621 because it seems to be getting worse. Today Safari 26 even crashed after beachballing for a long time while trying to type in the address bar.
The bad performance seems to get worse in relation to how long Safari has been open or how much browsing has been done, so initially everything seems fine, but after a few hours it sometimes takes seconds to respond (on an M4 Pro!).
@eurozerozero I've taken to restarting Safari every time, too. Assuming this is some kind of memory leak, hoping for a fix in 26.0.2. Thanks for filing a FB!