memory leak occuring in safari in M1 macbook air

Memory leak occuring in safari in M1 macbook air while streaming zoom recording or an online video on onedrive.

First a significant memory usage warning is showing and then webpage reloads automatically when memory pressure maxes out.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Feb 13, 2021 9:49 AM

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iisbll

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Feb 17, 2021 12:29 AM in response to vatsal007

I have the exact same issue, which has been occurring since 2-3 weeks after buying my Macbook Pro M1. I've checked Activity Monitor and one Zoom recording page can take up 4GB of memory (I have 8GB) within a few minutes of opening the page, before reloading. Hope there's a solution soon.

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