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Anyone else having memory bloat issues with Safari (5.0.5)? Since the last update, It loads up a ton of memory and doesn't release it. I have 16 gig on my Mac tower and Safari is currently taking up 9.5 gig as I type this. I think this vers. has a serious memory leak. Any thoughts?
DF
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Hi,
first of all, there is no browser without memory problems, but Safari seems to be one of the worst. It makes definitly no diffference if you use 5.05 ore 5.1 concernig the memory problem. But there are seriuos additional problems with Safari 5.1 and the 10.6.8 update, so I would avoid generally the MacOS 10.6.8 update.
You can try things, like throwing off Adblock and keep off websites with many flash-ads or websites with not segmented table-displays. But all this will perhaps diminish the problem, not solve it.
My solution is to use Google Chrome instead, but only without flash, because shockwave is enormously processor wasting, much more than the flashplayer in Safari.
Opera always brings my processor to 140%
Firefox may be a possibility too.
I still have these issues in 5.1.7, after a while of usage its up to 2GB and I have to restart Safari to get anything done...
Safari memory issues...
