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Safari 14.1.1 on Apple M1 complains about memory usage while streaming videos

When I watch a video on either Amazon Prime Video, Netflix or Disney+ in Safari 14.1.1 on a M1 mac mini running big Sur 11.4, after a while I am getting warnings from Safari about "too much memory consumption". This does not happen on an Intel Mac running the same version of Big Sur and Safari. It does not happen with Firefox on the M1 mac mini. Looks like an issue with the Safari HTML5 video player on M1.

Mac mini, macOS 11.4

Posted on Jun 5, 2021 10:38 PM

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User profile for user: dominic23
dominic23
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Posted on Jun 6, 2021 4:11 AM

Go step by step and test.


1. Update Safari, if an update is available. Update may come with bug fixes.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204416

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201541


2. Quit Safari, launch Safari holding the Shift key down.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987


3. Startup in Safe Mode. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac.  

    Quote:

    It also does a basic check of your startup disk, similar to using First Aid in Disk Utility. 

    And it deletes some system caches, including font caches and 

    the kernel cache, which are automatically created again as needed.


4. Clear History

    https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/mac

    Please read the article before clearing history, 

    this is like a low level resetting of Safari without affecting passwords and bookmarks.


5. If Safari doesn't open a webpage or isn’t working as expected

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204098

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dominic23
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Jun 6, 2021 4:11 AM in response to tallinn1960

Go step by step and test.


1. Update Safari, if an update is available. Update may come with bug fixes.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204416

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201541


2. Quit Safari, launch Safari holding the Shift key down.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203987


3. Startup in Safe Mode. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/start-up-your-mac-in-safe-mode-mh21245/mac.  

    Quote:

    It also does a basic check of your startup disk, similar to using First Aid in Disk Utility. 

    And it deletes some system caches, including font caches and 

    the kernel cache, which are automatically created again as needed.


4. Clear History

    https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/clear-your-browsing-history-sfri47acf5d6/mac

    Please read the article before clearing history, 

    this is like a low level resetting of Safari without affecting passwords and bookmarks.


5. If Safari doesn't open a webpage or isn’t working as expected

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204098

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