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Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Monterey 12.2 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
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I just ran an update for outlook, and search is fixed!
Im suddenly facing a huge memory leak with Safari, I can literally see the activity monitor climb as soon as any page is opened and then keeps climbing from there it was at a point at 8 gb with just one page open, doesn't stop at all. Any one else witnessing this? Im moving to Firefox for this beta because of this.
Just starting this week--so I assume it's the update-- I have several email newsletters that don't load on my MBA. Absolutely white-screen blanks. They're fine on iOS. I think it's related to some of the iCloud security settings because it's only happening to emails on my mac.com account--and, in fact, I get one newsletter via two different accounts (not on purpose!), and the one via the other account loads fine.
What type Mac config is involved? Do you run Safari in private mode? How about do you use any Safari extensions like Adblock.
14 inch M1 pro. Yes I do use an Adblock extension but I disabled it but hasn’t made a difference. No private mode enabled.
I normally run pretty much everything in private windows except a normal window for the webcaches associated with Netflix. MacRumors site for example can add many trackers to what you see in safari preferences -> privacy -> Manage Website Data. Essentially you don't need any website stored data accumulation for most sites. Netflix won't work unless their cookie/databases/local storage is allowed. All the other streaming sites don's have that issue. I am using both a M1 24" iMac and a 16" M1 Max MBP with this beta.
There is the possibility that Adblock is still running even if it is disabled.
Fair enough. I will definitely check. However, this has happened only in this beta and there is a significant drain in the battery because of it and it’s visibly noticeable. But will investigate more since it definitely has reduced battery life as well
No luck, have pretty much cleared website data, uninstalled the ad blocker etc, but still the same problem. I have uninstalled AlDente after trialing with it, I wonder if the way the battery is behaving is because of that, I will leave a complete discharge and charge up again and see if there is some improvement to the battery, but safari is definitely leaking in this beta.
Usually by leaving it open, or through normal usage, and eventually getting out of memory errors from MacOS, and finding the application is eating up 110% of your available RAM (even if you have upwards of 32 gigs) for no reason.
Usually means some function/operation's data isn't being cleared from RAM that should be, so every time the function/operation happens it just eats up more RAM.
Hope this gives you an idea, just look at that consumption with one tab open and it keeps increasing.
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Because safari literally eats computer ram? I have been experiencing this since day one with previous versions and still happens as I can read. In my M1 pro 14 with 32gb ram, safari with some tabs opened, can get to 12 or 14 ram total usage. It gets down to 5/6 once I close safari.
So if this beta, months after launch, can’t solve this issues, then is not a good beta.
Looks like we ALL have a Monterey problem, that still not fixed in this beta.
Memory leak are not only present in safari.
And why I should stop using it, as is the NATIVE browser instead of asking to get fixed?
Damn, some replies are so surreal....
The dropped dns connections isn't just in Safari. It's all connections. Zoom is cutting out, Steam, Twitter etc. Let's hope this is fixed in the new beta.