OS X El Capitan Safari beach ball freeze

Safari has not worked for months. It worked briefly with El Capitan but now it is too dangerous to even open. As soon as it opens the memory used begins to quickly and exponentially grow. It will eventually give the "Startup Disk Full" as it goes from 200mb of memory used to over 8gb. It will eventually lock entire system. I keep hoping with each update it will be fixed but I just again this morning and no such luck. It still does not work.

Yes it has been freezing up regularly, every 3-4 days, I have run the disc utility 1st aid, and seems fine. Will continue to monitor, and check for upadates.

Since I installed El Capitan yesterday morning I've had the beach ball freeze three times. The last time it only ran five hours before crashing. Hardware is a 2014 Mac Pro w/64GB and external SSDs. I've done Disk Utility First Aid and both SMC and PRAM resets to no effect.

I have the same issue...

Each time a click on Safari, iTunes, Finder, Mail... i have the pinwheel beachball and sometime, all freeze... I have to reset the iMac

Tonight, I will downgrade to Yosemite and wait for next update for El Capitan

Same issue here, happens specifically everytime I am about to type a search query into the address bar after the first few letters.

There is also a reddit thread regarding this: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/3nd3uq/anyone_else_having_issues_with_safari_hanging/

Yes I installed 4 days ago and have had none stop beach ball freezes in El Capitan OS in all different applications, preview, safari, notes, photos, iTunes, numbers. I am running it on a MacBook Pro early 2011 model A1278. This has unfortunately come at a bad time for me cause I stopped doing time machine backups after my iMac was stolen a few weeks ago. I was only waiting on a diffent mac or place to put my data from the stolen iMac. So anyways I can not revert to Yosemite because I have no Time Machine Backup. I learned huge lesson. Always have backups running.

I have done the disk utility as well, no effect here either. I miss Yosemite.

Same problem here. iTunes was fine. While I was listening to music, I tried to access my iTunes account via the iTunes window and got the beach ball freeze. Eventually I force wuit iTunes and restarted, but everytime I restart iTunes freezes before giving me a window. Restarted my Macbook Pro several times, but to no avail. Makes me want to cry.

Exact same issue. I've tried turning off all the quick search, pre-load, and search suggestion options in Safari...still having the same issue. Big time bummer, because it's actually something I use hundreds of times DAILY as opposed to some of the "new features" Apple feels like it needs to roll out all the time. I just would like to not go backwards on something as simple as web browsing.

Hi - I aso have this problem. Any solutions out there?

Also experiencing this. About to abandon Safari for Chrome simply because I can't stand having it crash on me several times a day...

has somebody tried with 10.11.2? Went back to mavericks until it get's fixed.

Safari was fine for me on El Capitan 10.11.1 but since upgrading to 10.11.2 the beach ball freezing has started. I'm on a MacBook Air late 2011. Has anyone had any success running on Chrome instead of Safari?

Same here. In Safari, the ball starts spinning. I quit Safari then restart. It works for a while. Then spin spin spin. Tried all the usual stuff, empty cache, delete db in the library, safe mode start. No extensions. I give up. At least Apple can confirm this issue and tell its customers they are working on a solution.

This was happening to me too in Safari. Using the Activity Monitor I found out that is was a Flash Plug In causing the problem with Safari. Using 99% of the CPU thus the pinwheel of death. It seems I was able to resolve the crashing Safari by simply updating both Flash Player components in System Preferences. Right now I am using: NPAPI Plug-in version 20.0.0.235 is installed and PPAPI Plug-in version 20.0.0.228 is installed.