Will Apple never fix the memory problems with Netflix and Facebook?

Without the full disk access for Etrecheck the only issue I see is this:

Time since boot: About 62 days

One should reboot much more frequently, at least 2-3 times a week. I shut down each night because having an SSD as the boot drive booting up only takes about 25 seconds. This cleans out temporary cache and swap files for both the system and other apps.

You have about 1.74 G of swap memory and that could be part of the problem with the two sites.With 16 GB of RAM you should be able to get by without any memory swap. I know I do. Cleaning out the cache files by rebooting will help the memory issue.

You will need to give Etrecheck full disk access for it to see what kexts are loaded, and other system extensions.

I noticed you have not rebooted for 62 days. Sometimes programs like Chrome and Netflix and Facebook take more and more memory which can slow down a computer. Restarting once in a while can clear this out and speed things up.

Booting into safe mode may also clear some things that could be slowing down your computer.

Netflix and Facebook grab a lot of computer resources, especially for video. But I run both of these on a 2008 iMac with 4 GB memory! No freezing!

Also, your Catalina is not updated to the latest version, which may help. Make a backup before updating.

you can try to download and run the free program called etrecheck and post the result of its scan your issues with performance could be caused by other factors which that would revile

Well maybe that is because of a poorly coded page. Facebook can try to run several videos at the same time; the Facebook messenger pages in particular can have issues.

I don’t have Netflix so I can’t comment on that.

The thing is, if other pages load and work fine, and these two fail, and in different browsers, this suggests the pages may be the issue.

You should also try Firefox. It is a much leaner than Chrome and does not grab your data the way Chrome does...

It becomes clear that this is an OS issue and that Apple SHOULD PAY ATTENTION.

if it's anymore than just the operating system informing the user if their feel their macbooks battery life is found wanting then maybe you should inform them of such using their feedback channel

Feedback - macOS - Apple

This is a user helping other users with

tech questions forum, you are not addressing apple here  just  fellow users

it get it from time to time on several macos versions currently on 2012 mac mini on catalina

but the facebook page itself does not really performe worse than on windows and macos in various browsers on both and ios(ipadOS)

you can read more about it here and the difference between when it says energy and memory

https://appletoolbox.com/webpage-using-significant-energy-in-safari-heres-what-you-should-know/#lsquoSignificant_Energyrsquo

more

https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+This+webpage+is+using+significant+energy.+Closing+it+may+improve+the+responsiveness+of+your+Mac.&oq=facebook+This+webpage+is+using+significant+energy.+Closing+it+may+improve+the+responsiveness+of+your+Mac.&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l6.2523j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

can't speak for netflix I only use that on my appletv

Well, as for me, I use both Netflix and Facebook and never see any such messages. And I have only 8 gigs of Ram on this machine.

it simply frozes the image and display a specific ERROR code,

That's a Netflix problem.

Pinkosa wrote:

Do you have Catalina?

And all the versions before it too