Safari 8.0, Google Docs and excessive memory consumption / leak?

I've been seeing this too; it was even happening in Mavericks. I actually just killed a Google Sheet in Safari that was using 9.3GB of memory. Really absurd that I have to do this a few times a day. Not sure if we blame Apple or Google for this one.

I see the same. Any ideas on how to fix this instead of switching to Chrome?

Still happening, went to sleep and wake up to see low memory warnings and apps beening paused and the tab using up to 23 GB.

I see the same thing happening with my Google Sheet, and I use Chrome. I switched from Safari a while ago because Sheets wouldn't even function in Safari, it kept resetting every time I edited a cell. Anyway, the memory use with Chrome just keeps climbing until I have to kill it. It just started a few weeks ago for me, but I've been using Sheets for much longer than that. I have GB of RAM. It's ridiculous, I shouldn't have to think about buying a new laptop with 16GB of RAM to use a spreadsheet!

still happening for me with safari 9.0.2 on el capitan 10.11.2

7.8gb of memory used. couldn't even come back and log in after the screen was locked automatically.

just need to remember to close the window as soon as i finish with google docs next time.

I never really noticed the issue as I never really kept Google document open in Safari. I would work on them, then close.

I use a Google sheet as a schedule/calendar for work and I was very happy to be able to pin a tab with this sheet in Safari 9, so I could always access it super easily....

But, now, after a couple of hours, having the tab always open, the memory located to it grows to several GB.

About 10 minutes ago, I had to kill Safari as it was taking almost 6GB... on my 4GB MacBook Air. It took me almost 5 minutes to log, open Activity Monitor and kill the app....

I's quite a pain.

Still happening for me on Safari 9.1 El Capitan. Up to 4GB of memory by a single google doc

Still happening I'm not sure why, happens till system starts giving me low memory warning. this is with one sheet open. System is updated and running OSX 10.11.4

Just saying,

I have the exact same issue here. It grow's to 12GB on my 16GB machine and I have to kill it. Looks like a huge memory to me and make's the website useless. Properly google will advice to use chrome that most lickly will do something non-standard and doesn't have this issue..

I recommend posting the whatever forums Google maintains. Google software has a long history of excessive resource hogging on Macs. Adding RAM to your computer will not stop Googles excesses.

Had the same problem, but fixed after trying few things which included:

Block then allow docs.google.com on Click-to-plugin extension settings

Reload the tab with google docs document couple of times

Wonder if this will be helpful for someone.

Sorry, the click-to-plugin extension had nothing to do with the problem. I'm still having the problem.

I'm on El Capitan with Safari 9.1.1.

Same here - El Capitan and Safari 9.1.1. What. A. Joke.

I'm having the same problem on Mac OS Sierra. I guess it's safe to say Google hates Safari. For example, have you ever wondered why Google disables three finger click to lookup words in Google Docs and Google News?

Wah. Me too. Mac OS Sierra 10.12.1, Safari 10.0.1.