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

I don't use Zoom. Does this to me on Twitter, Treehouse, YouTube, any resource heavy site that is open. I started having this issue after the update, before it would just let me know and give me the choice to reload. Now it just does it on its own

I have the exact same issues too. I am currently on Mac OS Big Sur 11.2 and the problem still exist. Whenever I am watching a zoom video recording playback or a video within google drive, it automatically reloaded cause of using significant memory. I am forcing to use Chrome for the moment. Apple please fix this ASAP.

gur145 wrote:

Same issue but with gmail

Do you mean using the Gmail App, or accessing gmail through a web-browser?

If the latter, using what web-browser?

Accessing what sort of email content? Videos? Something else?

i'm a little late to this thread, but i have not had any of the difficulties being reported across these five pages (with zoom). there IS, however, a big difference between my situation and everyone else. i'm not accessing my zoom through any browser. i use the zoom app for mac. i'v never had issues using any of the features in zoom. (screen sharing, recording, etc.) it even makes it a two click option to go from the notification e-mail to the meeting.

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(i get no compensation from zoom. nor am i affiliated with them.)

Hi,

I think you have mis understood the issue. The Zoom App on Mac does not allow you to review recordings that were not made by you, on your device. We are talking about viewing zoom video recordings that are usually on links at your institution. When you click on the link you get a player which plays the recordings made by the professor or whoever. This is what's causing massive restarts. I have this issue several times a day on Safari.

i do apologize for my misunderstanding. but that's what happens when dozens of people hijack a thread instead of creating a discussion of their own. people responding can become confused as to what the original poster's issue was to start with.

ramyelkhazendar wrote:

Hi,

We are talking about viewing zoom video recordings that are usually on links at your institution. When you click on the link you get a player which plays the recordings made by the professor or whoever. This is what's causing massive restarts. I have this issue several times a day on Safari.

and, who is we? i can't seem to see ANYTHING about zoom in the original poster's question. it appears that you are among the people who have hijacked this thread and now expect me to adapt to your issue. why not start YOUR OWN thread to ask about recording zoom?

Well then.

Its very interesting that you got all up in your feelings.

Actually the issue is pertinent to this thread because the issues that are occurring are causing the webpage atomically reloading because it was using significant memory. So I think they are in the right place, and you need to settle down.

Secondly, no one expects you to adapt to anything. Last I checked no one asked you any questions. I only responded to give you context.

Clown

I do quarterly training and every video I watch does this. It is making Safari almost unusable for watching training video. Is there a way to turn this message off? I have a 64GB MacBook Pro, I'm pretty sure this isn't running out of memory

Very inconvenient for online classes -- would love if this was fixed. My laptop is brand new and running Big Sur 11.2.1 (just updated to see if it would fix the issue..) I also tried clearing history and cache, but since it is only a few weeks of data I had low hopes of that working, and alas, it is still refreshing in a very stifling and unrefreshing way.

/K

disney+ nearly always gave me that error message, and now with the auto reload i can't get through a movie without it reloading at least like 4-5 times. incredibly annoying; wish i could turn this off at least temporarily

Halliday considering this is a thread about an error message in Safari you can correctly assume I'm running this through the browser Safari. Considering the 6 pages of replies also mentions it several times, you'd also be correct to assume Safari is the only browser on macOS that gives these messages, so yes, a different browser would fix the problem but a different browser would give me other issues I don't have with Safari.

I'm just trying to watch Disney+ and it keeps happening. Super annoying when you're trying to watch a movie and the page keeps reloading. I found an old fix that suggested emptying caches, but it made no difference.

What I stated about websites vs. inappropriate use (abuse) of browser resources is absolutely true, Gregory Jones1.

The fact that certain browsers—that are known resource hogs—have chosen to “go along” with this abuse, does not invalidate this truth.

However, it does provide a workaround for such abuse.

I am having this issue too. I am working on a project in Jupyter Lab, a local host that runs iPython in Safari. It is no surprise that what I am doing uses significant memory, it is a necessary evil of what I am working on. This feature is totally disrupting my workflow and has forced me to switch my default browser to Firefox for the time being. It is always annoying when developers program applications to make unilateral decisions like this without any consideration of what users might need from the application.

Running Big Sur 11.2.2 on a 2016 MBP (13", Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports)

Big Sur has totally disrupted my workflow and I am unable to find any solution to stop this automatic reloading. This feature was a very dumb move, a notification to let users make their own decisions was perfectly fine on its own, they did not need to do anything more.