safari requires many megs memory

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safari requires many megs memory

Recently Safari has started consuming almost my whole 10 G memory; Activity monitor shows no available memory at all, then I get the beach ball. I like Safari since Firefox has to include an icon of a folder for the bookmark folder on its bar; Safari does not require that waste of space. But using Firefox doesn't bog down the computer like Safari does. I'll stick with Firefox until I hear this has been fixed, or a Safari update suggests it may have...

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Oct 12, 2013 7:27 PM

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Answer 1

John Galt

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Oct 12, 2013 7:41 PM in response to whittey

This is not normal.

Determine what Safari Extensions may be the cause. Go to the Safari menu > Preferences > Extensions. If you see any extensions that you do not recognize or understand, simply click the Uninstall button and they will be gone.

Also read the following:

Safari: Unsupported third-party add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues

If after considering the above the problems still exist, reply for more troubleshooting suggestions.

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Answer 2

Oct 12, 2013 7:42 PM in response to whittey

Something's amiss if Safari is actually 10GB's of memory. The issue may be extensions and third party pugins, not just the Safari app itself.

From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFf.

Now select the Security tab. Deselect: Allow all other plug-ins

Quit and relaunch Safari to test.

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