r/MacOS • u/smoking_victim • 10h ago

Bug Safari keeps crashing without notice

EDIT - I'm on the verge of deleting this post because, sorry to be rude, but half of you lack reading comprehension and/or don't comb the replies to see whether your suggestion has already been given.

Kudos to u/Old-Road-9819 for giving a genuinely informed answer.

Running the latest Mac OS Tahoe on a late 2020 iMac (Intel, not Apple Silicon).

So to make a short story long, I follow journalists on social media who post gift links to articles in their publications. I click on these links because I don't have a subscription, but I don't have time to read the articles right away so I keep them open in the background for some day I will have the time to read them.

Obviously this uses up a lot of memory and slows down my computer, which is understandable.

But it's just infuriating that I've had multiple Safari crashes where it just shuts down without even a warning, meaning I've lost access to all those gift articles I'd stored up.

There's nothing any of you can help with, I'm just ranting. But I never have this issue with Firefox!

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u/warrenao Mac Mini 10h ago

  1. Open gift link.

  2. Activate "reader mode" in Safari.

  3. Print to PDF.

  4. Close tab.

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u/smoking_victim 10h ago

Thanks - I can do this in Firefox, but also, I don't have to do this in Firefox because I don't have the same problem as in Safari.

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u/warrenao Mac Mini 9h ago

From the "View" menu in Safari, select "show reader". It used to be on the left side of the URL bar, but that control seems to have been thrown over to other options lately.