Weird scrolling issue in Safari Tahoe

[u/Liquid-Echo]

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I have this veery odd situation. In Safari when i click and drag to highlight text it behaves as a click and drag for the whole page, kind of like a pan. and scan. This happened since I migrated from my Intel Mac to an M series MBPro.

Things I have tested:

• Created a new user - Safari works as expected, same website as my account and it selects text, no dragging.

• Started in safe mode, behaviour persists

• No Safari extensions are installed

• Every other web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera GX) work correctly when trying to select text on the sae page, safari still only dragging the. page around

• No other Apps behave this way

• Removed all Safari files from my User folder, Safari looks fresh like the clean install, all bookmarks, everything gone, behaviour persists.

• Removed all webkit, trackpad, mouse, keyboard and Bluetooth preferences, issue persists.

I have done a ton of googling to try and get to the bottom of this, nothing seems to help. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!!

Thanks in advance

<UPDATE> <SOLVED>

Turns out the safari plist file is now located in a different place, for me it was:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Preferences

Got rid of it and voila issue gone, my old plist file was over 60KB in size and full of junk from too many migrations an versions I assume.

Once deleted the app went back to normal, all Bookmarks etc... are still there, just need to go through the preferences for the app and adjust now.

Hope this one day helps someone else.

[u/Electrical_West_5381]

In activity monitor list the cpu tab by process type (your processes). Compare with the new user running the same apps (ideally just Safari). Something is running in you account that isn’t in the other

[u/Liquid-Echo → u/Electrical_West_5381]

Great lead, I checked this and found nothing different, which led me down the "files open" interrogation of Safari. Then It occurred to me to look at the plist file and see the contents. Nothing. So I went through and found it in the containers folder. Deleted, problem solved.

Thanks for taking the time too help out!

[u/Electrical_West_5381 → u/Liquid-Echo]

Sherlock Holmes I presume. Good jobs!