Safari 11 arbitrary reloads

My partner has a MacBook Air with 8gb ram and is persistently getting the ‘significant memory’ error in Safari on Facebook web games. I’ve tried everything from clearing the cache, clearing PRAM to a complete reinstall of the operating system. I have seen a few instances of this issue occurring online but no clear fixes. I’m beginning to convince myself it’s something beyond a user fix.

Well, my "solution" so far has been to run that process in Chrome instead of Safari. Not only does Chrome let it run for as long as I like, it turns out that it's able to execute it more than twice as fast (for this particular case).

I don't like using Chrome and I do so as little as possible, but for this it's a much better solution.

See if a reset helps.

Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History…. The down side is it clears all cookies. Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site. Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db and move it to the trash.

Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

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I tried "Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu", but I couldn't find the develop menu.

The only solution I came up with, and I've been using Safari for maybe 15 years, has been to reluctantly switch to FireFox.

I am replying to you because I can't find a way to simply reply to the thread.

I purchased my Air less than 6 months ago.

I use it only as a backup since my MBP can't be fixed (recall situation I was not notified about).

I am constantly getting this message about reload due to using significant memory and I have never received it with any of my other computers.

I have 8 GB RAM. I notice it when I am on most any news page, youtube or something like Bored Panda.

It is really aggravating and should not be happening with a new computer.

I don't want to clear all my history and start over getting it used to me, but will give it a try, but I read here that doing all that didn't help others.

I bought this computer because my MBP was crashing, this is almost as bad.

I hope I don't find out too late on the AIR that it is a recall that I again miss out on.

Getting very disillusioned with APPLE.

Guess I'll have to take them all into the APPLE store for repair.

Snowbouv

You're just throwing out random advice without understanding the problem. Etrecheck will do nothing to help this problem. It's not malware, anti virus, cleaners, or an unknown app.

Safari has decided that when a page is consuming "too much" energy that the right thing to do is to kill that page's process and replace it with a message saying it needs to be reloaded.

What we're looking for is way to decide for ourselves what "too much" is. But there isn't a way. It's extremely annoying for anyone who needs a page's process to continue its work.

Anyone knows how to solve this behavior? this Shi... is canceling my uploads to youtube!!!!!!

If you check the box in Preferences, it should appear in the top menu bar.

unfortunately none of these steps above helped...

This condition really blows. I really hope Apple comes up with a fix very soon.

Wow! This was helpful! NOT!

I submit that reloading a page 90% into a 2GB video upload is throwing a large amount of energy and bandwidth away.

Use Etrechck safari will not load websites by it own unless you click on a link , either there is malware , anti virus , cleaners and unknown apps in the Mac to there are some internet plugins .

Did you have any progress with this or take it to your Apple store? Really curious to see if anyone has had any further developments.