Opening a New Tab in Safari

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I’ve been using this 2020 Intel MacBook Air for months now and it has this one nagging problem. It’s not a big deal–it’s just weird. When I open a new tab in Safari, there’s about a 50% chance that I’ll get the beachball for 2-3 seconds before the new tab appears. Why? It’s basically the only time I ever see the beachball and it’s such a simple task.

I’m running the latest macOS (11.4). I’ve ditched all my Safari extensions except my password manager, but this made no difference.

Anyone have thoughts?

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Change in preferences: New tabs open in ‘Empty Page’. I found that eliminated the beach ball for me.

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I have the same thing. Annoying bug.

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Thank you! This does indeed solve the problem. I knew someone here would have an answer!

Not sure I’ll stick with this, as I kind of like the Safari start page, but it’s satisfying to know where the bug is.

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