iPad has probably had the most dramatic shift of all of Apple's platforms, since its inception. It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly. I hope history finds it to have been more than just an incubator for Apple's Mac silicon during the wayward years
@stroughtonsmith disagree. A) light computing isn’t just about price. B) You can get an iPad for less than half the cost of a Mac.
For casual computer users an iPad does pretty much everything they need to. My 70 yo father would rather spend £1k on an iPad vs any computer for the same money because of its ’lightness’. There are plenty of people who don’t need the complexity of a Mac, including its hardware complexity.
@simonbs creating a dummy account and browsing around for a while (depends how frequently you see the issue) should give you an indication if it’s Safari or potentially some issues with your config. Could be an interplay of extensions, corrupt pref files, something iCloud is doing etc etc
Using a dummy account will be almost the equivalent of a clean install.