what is the process“Finder Web Content”？

I had the same problem. I was in Finder in the 'Cover Flow' view mode. My folder had a very large SVG file (scaled vector graphics), about 70MB in size. This file holds an image in SVG format. The file showed up with a generic icon (inkscape) and it was the primary image in the middle of the cover flow display. Finder was trying to generate a preview for this very large file. While trying to view this file, 'Finder Web Content' was using about 90% of the CPU on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13in, late 2013, 16GB RAM, OS X 10.11.6).

When I closed this particular Finder window, the 'Finder Web Content' process quit entirely (it was no longer shown anywhere in the Activity Monitor). There was no need to reconstruct the file permissions of my drive.

So it appears that the 'Finder Web Content' is in charge of constructing preview images, not just for Word documents but perhaps for all documents, and it was just taking a very long to time create this image.

So I also encountered a same thing , Anyone can help me too ? 🙂

I have the same problem

I have the same problem, out of now where my fans begin to run very hard and the activity monitor shows Finder Web Content is using 150% of CPU

I had this prolem with SAFARI WEB CONTENT hogging up to 100% of CPU

I tried some of he solutions proposed (eg resetting Safari, looking for locked files etc, none worked and I did not have any locked files) on the apple threads and found that upgrading TRUSTEER resolved the SAFARI WEB CONTENT issue - its now running at 0.3%

Great, BUT now

FINDER WEB CONTENT has appeared and is chewing up 98% of cpu

This is starting to get beyond a joke. I find that quiting FINDER WEB CONTENT using ACTIVITY MONITOR makes it go away, which did not happen with SAFARI WEb CONTENT

I had the same problem with the "Finder Web Content", I thought my computer was dying! While I don't know how to fix it, (other than force quitting it from the activity monitor, which worked, but you have to keep and eye out and do it every time it pops up) I did find that it only happens when my Maverick OS system tries to preview a word document in a finder window. And only particular word documents, in my case it was Word documents that were using a "drawing canvas". After taking all the charts I had out of the canvas's (which were silly and useless anyway), I did not encounter this problem any more.

I hope that helps some.

Try disable Finder "Show preview column". Finder->View->Show View Options->uncheck "Show preview column".

WildeIdea, Keep It Simple gave the solution. Keeping an eye on "Finder Web Content" in the Terminal solves the problem.

That "Finder Web Content" may have a purpose in life (which one?), but you can well browse the Net and work after force quitting it. Before I found the solution in another blog it was using more than 4GB of RAM, and putting everything else out of the picture (even with 8GB of RAM). Conversely, once that FWC is gone, other tasks immediately start to reduce their needs.

It may be connected to Word but it seems to affect all applications. When the machine starts to slow down and you have that infamous pop-up "Your system has run out of application memory" it is time to visit your Terminal to regain speed in a minute or two after eliminating that nuisance.

Zheechen you are right, there seems to be an issue with the preview, but "Show Preview Column" seems to be missing in Mavericks.

Elsewhere someone also suggested to download Memory Clean (free app), which is a neat little helper.

Good luck.

It is not a great solution, but I just keep the Activity Monitor open all the time (I'm sort of type A that way) and if things start to get bogged down, I just check it out, and if 'web finder content' is hogging my RAM & CPU, then I force the process to quit (stop sign icon in top left of Activity Monitor while process is highlighted).

Keep it Simple: I may be misunderstanding you, but I have 'finder web content' issues and I don't use Safari, I use Firefox.

The problem might be associate with Word for Mac, since that seems to be the common denominator. Is anyone experiencing this problem without Word for Mac?

Tawmis

So far I only had to force quit finder web content once and several days later it has not gone over 2% CPU. Word crashed soon after but Word also seems to be behaving (as well as Word ever does).

I'm experiencing the problem and I don't have Word for Mac. It seems to happen when I use Pages, although there may be other instances where it happens and I am not aware of it.

In fact, I can confirm now that I've tested it: I'm working back and forth between Pages and iBooks. iBooks has no effect on it, but as soon as I make one or two changes in a Pages document, the Finder Web Content shoots up to grab half a GB of memory.

I am having the same problem. I need to kill the finder app to stop my mac from blowing me away.

I changed the view to not show the preview, and for now it does not happen again.

Has anybody found a fix to this issue. Force quitting the process in Activity Monitor mutliple time throughout the day is a hassle. I can't seem to find anything on this issue elsewhere.

Still having this issue... I'm surprised no one from Apple has weighed in on this question yet.