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Safari Web Content

Recently I found that y Safari is working sluggishly.


I have updated my RAM to 4GB and MacBook works much snappier than earlier.


I looked into Activity Monitor - It is showing Safari Web Content taking up max memory, sometimes close to 1.5Gb.


Is anybody else having similar issue. How do I get rid of it???

macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.5), apple macbook

Posted on Aug 3, 2011 8:10 PM

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Posted on Aug 3, 2011 8:40 PM

Empty the Safari cache more often and clear history. You can do that from the Safari menu bar click Safari / Reset Safari.

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Nov 20, 2011 12:33 PM in response to aniruddhabara

I had a similar problem. Safari would get very sluggish. The first clue to this problem was that the scolling ball on the mouse would not work properly.

I used the Activity Monitor, and found that the process called "Safari Web Content" was using "100.2 %" of the cpu time. I quit the process, and a new one started up right away. This solved the problem for a few days.


Later, I spoke with Apple support, and reloading Safari was the suggested solution. I've done this, but not yet had a lot of time to try it. So far, it works well.

Apr 24, 2013 11:18 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

I'm having similar issues, sluggish, mouse and scroll bar not responding, etc. I clear cache & inactive memory often, same with history. However, I've been running into even more issues when I re-open Safari, and try to restore my previous session, by using the re-open all windows option: OVER HALF MY WINDOWS DISAPPEAR, or all that's left are the titles in the tabs!


They also are no longer in my history, despite my having not deleted them, so ***????

To be using Macs for many, many years, and see the things that used to work much better, now all buggy & difficult to work with, is quite disappointing, frustrating, and aggravating....


I sure shouldn't have to spend a lot of time reconstructing manually & laboriously, all the windows Safari didn't re-open. If I didn't have to keep closing & opening it just to drop it's memory usage down, this wouldn't even have to ba an issue.....smdh

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