Safari 14 on Big Sur: How to prevent a webpage from automatically reloading because it was using significant memory?

It now seems like PASV didn't work in the long run... Back to the drawing table... Btw I switched to GOOGLE CHROME. Seems to work fine!!

Please report it. Google apple safari feedback.

report and file a detailed report. We have to draw attention to this immediately.

Ive reported this on the feedback page. I recommend EVERYONE DOES IT

enbecker5:

It may help to read my comment at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252041706?answerId=254747164022#254747164022

I quite agree, jacopo14, that «it's a big issue nonetheless.»

Unfortunately, at this time, all one can do is give Apple Product Feedback, and utilize workarounds.

jb20_ wrote:

… I would really appreciate if this feature was something that could be toggled on and off.

Have you provided this Feedback to Apple?

Apple isn’t here. We are but your fellow users.

Safari can not handle Disney plus, I have given up now .. best alternative would be to start using Edge, it’s better than chrome.

Welcome, salliefromstafford, to Apple Support Communities!

Have you provided this Feedback to Apple? Perhaps also to Zoom?

Apple isn’t here. We are but your fellow users.

April 11 2020,

sad to see this problem still persist I am using chrome to solve this. I hope apple fix this soon.

Try edge, it works better than chrome !

Edited to add: This looks like it may be an issue with Zoom's web client for recorded videos not playing nice with Big Sur? I started a video and watched in Activity Monitor that over the course of a minute or so, the zoom Safari tab ate more and more memory until Safari killed it at about 6.5gb -- this wasn't happening earlier today under Catalina. So, it's not clear to me whether this is an issue with Zoom, or an issue with Big Sur, or an issue with Safari 14 -- but in any case, there's some kind of runaway memory usage happening.

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I just updated to Big Sur today, and I'm now having the same issue -- I'm watching a recorded lecture video in Safari and the webpage keeps being automatically reloaded while I'm watching. Safari is now unusable for one of my biggest use cases.

I have the exact same issue. So I know it isn't isolated.

I had a message display on Catalina in the past where it says something along the lines of it might be slow because its using significant memory. I always found that very odd and absurd to be frank since I have a 16" top of the line MacBook Pro with more than enough RAM to run a lot heavier applications.

This must be fixed immediately since exams are right around the corner. To make matters more frustrating I have tried every possible work around that I could think of.

Even if you go into terminal and sudo purge, the issue resolves only temporarily and goes right back to committing the same problem.

What is the solution ????

I have posted feedback on Apples site for Safari. But how long would that event take to resolve? I think it will be a while before we see any updates being pushed.

Yes, Jakob12345.

«GOOGLE CHROME» is well known as a resource “hog”.

So, I’m not surprised that it would permit errant web processes to use exceptional quantities of local storage, rather than properly using Server side storage resources.

Safari keeps reloading my homework page, clearing all the answers. It used to be the fastest of the browsers on that page, but now it's completely unusable. There has to be an option to turn this off...