Safari extremely slow when developer tools open

I have been doing development in Safari for months and prefer the developer tools to Chrome's. However, development has become extremely painful because it can take minutes to simply refresh a page when the develop tools are open. Finally, I did some experimenting and opened the same site in Chromium and found nowhere near the same slow-down, even with the dev tools open.


Is this normal? Should I abandon Safari? Will a new Macbook help at all?

Replies

What mac do you have now? How much free space on the SSD? What amount of physical ram?

I have the same issue. Anyone has a solution?


Safari 10

i5

8GB RAM

128 SSD (70GB Free)

I get this and it's 2020 now, and they've done mothing.


When dev tools is open, the fans are on and it crawls.


Without devtools, it's fine. And no other browser's devtools do this.