Safari Keeps Crashing On Mac? How To Fix - Macube Cleaner

Summary: Is Safari freezing or crashing on your Mac? This post will help. Just follow the step-by-step guide on how to fix Safari when it freezes or crashes.

Some people complaint that after updating MacBook Air to macOS Sierra (10.12), the Safari keeps crashing every time they open it. So is there any idea on why Safari keeps crashing? And how to fix Safari on the Mac?

Why does Safari keep crashing or freezing up?

There are many reasons why Safari keeps crashing on iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air.

• You are opening too many tabs at a time on Safari.

• There are too many applications running on your MacBook, especially when your MacBook is running out of storage.

• The site your are visiting has heavy flash, videos, plugins or other elements that overload Safari.

• Safari has old or corrupted caches, cookies or downloads.

• An extension or plugin in the Safari cause the problem.

• Safari bug. For example, on January 2016, Safari on iOS & Mac OS X quit unexpectedly becaused of a bug caused by Apple's Safari Suggestions.

And to fix crashing Safari on Mac OS X, Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey and more, you can try the following methods.

Quickest solution you can try: Force Quit & Restart Safari

You know, there's an old saying, there's a problem and reboot first.Rebooting can automatically fix many unexpected problems.

How do I restart my Mac? There are two ways to do this:

1st Way: Simply go to Apple > Restart from the menu bar to restart your device.

2nd Way: Press and hold the power button on your Mac until it turns off. After a minute, press the power button again to start your Mac.

If you are in an emergency situation, try the following steps first and then read the following knowledge to prevent the next crash.

When your screen crashes together and you can't click on the screen: Press Option + Command + Esc on your keyboard to automatically force you out of any application.

Step 1: Locate to Apple from the menu bar, click Force Quit.

Step 2: Select Safari and then click on Force Quit.

Step 3: Wait thirty seconds and reopen the app to see if this resolves your issue.

Solution 1: Clear Browsing Data

Clearing old and corrupted browsing history (caches, cookies, etc.) can help stop Safari from crashing. Since you cannot open the browser right now, you can clear browsing data without opening Safari with Macube Cleaner, which can clean browser data, system caches, and more on your Mac.

• Install Macube Cleaner on your iMac, MacBook.

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• Click System Junk and hit Scan. When the scan stops, choose App Cache, find Safari cache and click Clean to get rid of the browser cache.



• Choose Privacy > Scan > Safari. Click Clean to delete cookies, internet history, download history of Safari on your Mac.

Now you can open Safari and see if it crashes or hangs again.

Tip: If Safari or other applications keeps crashing because of insufficient storage on your Mac, you can also use Macube Cleaner to clean up the Mac and free up more space.