Safari Constantly running out of memory on M1 MBP 16GB

[TehFalcon]

Is anyone else experiencing this? I bought the 16gb in hopes I'd avoid running out of memory doing most stuff.

I can barely scroll down on Facebook without safari running out of memory in that tab and reloading it, downloading on Mega.nz is unusable and used so much once macOS actually force quit Safari because the entire Mac ran out of memory.

Kinda annoying, never had this issue before and my habits haven't changed.

 

[BeatCrazy]

Is anyone else experiencing this? I bought the 16gb in hopes I'd avoid running out of memory doing most stuff.

I can barely scroll down on Facebook without safari running out of memory in that tab and reloading it, downloading onMega.nz is unusable and used so much once macOS actually force quit Safari because the entire Mac ran out of memory.

Kinda annoying, never had this issue before and my habits haven't changed.

Poor webpage design. Likely using 2GB+ of RAM.

More memory doesn't help, I used to get this warning on my 32GB iMac Pro.

 

[alien3dx]

Is anyone else experiencing this? I bought the 16gb in hopes I'd avoid running out of memory doing most stuff.

I can barely scroll down on Facebook without safari running out of memory in that tab and reloading it, downloading on Mega.nz is unusable and used so much once macOS actually force quit Safari because the entire Mac ran out of memory.

Kinda annoying, never had this issue before and my habits haven't changed.

in intel 16 gb imac also like that.. that's limitation of browser these day with facebook.

facebook in ipad still buggy
facebook in iphone only the stable one

 

[ImaginaryNerve]

Been having that problem with Disney+ in Safari on my M1 MBP.

I don’t browse FB any longer and with the standalone messenger app in the App Store, I have very little need to keep it open, so I can’t say one way or the other on how that site works.

I can say that I use Safari mostly with streaming and other than Disney+, I’d not gotten that error anywhere else. Netflix, Hulu, Discovety+, Paramount+, etc. all seem to work fine. Now I’m curious if I can get FB to cause Safari to restart/crash like I can with Disney+....

 

[Chompineer]

Obligatory “stop using Facebook, it’s literal spyware” comment.

 

[Chompineer]

Obligatory “stop using Facebook, it’s literal spyware” post.

Seriously though some websites are just poorly designed. Reddit’s infinite scroll craps up RAM incredibly fast too.

 

[pshufd]

Use UblockOrigen to block a lot of the spyware/adware. Or stop using Facebook. Facebook has kicked me off so many times for using privacy browsers.

 

[theSeb]

To echo what others have said, your computer is not running out of memory. That warning will come up for sites like Facebook and Twitter no matter how much free memory you have. It's basically telling you that Safari thinks the website is a resource hog and it's usually correct.

 

[jerryk]

Use UblockOrigen to block a lot of the spyware/adware. Or stop using Facebook. Facebook has kicked me off so many times for using privacy browsers.

I use a raspberry pi running the free PiHole software. When you set your DNS resolution to the Pi it checks to see if the address is a known ad or spam site and blocks those. You see the pages without the ads, and they load much faster. This blocks over 40% of the traffic to my system.

 

[mi7chy]

Welcome to Safari. Use a different browser such as Chrome, Edge, etc.

 

[DougiePhresh]

I have been getting this error a lot lately... (in fact, I made an account here solely for the purpose of trying to troubleshoot). In reference to the post by mi7chy... So this is a Safari-specific problem? I am doing school online and constantly getting kicked out of class because of this error. If I just use Firefox or something, it should be fine?

 

[ImaginaryNerve]

I have been getting this error a lot lately... (in fact, I made an account here solely for the purpose of trying to troubleshoot). In reference to the post by mi7chy... So this is a Safari-specific problem? I am doing school online and constantly getting kicked out of class because of this error. If I just use Firefox or something, it should be fine?

Seems to be Safari specific, yeah. A couple of the websites that would cause the warning to pop up and eventually crash seem to work perfectly fine in other browsers. I'm hoping a fix comes soon.

I did check the websites on older versions of Safari on intel Macs running older macOS versions (Mojave and Catalina) and I wasn't able to replicate the issue. I don't have easy access to an Intel Mac that can run Big Sur to test and see though might be able to check in a few days as my mother-in-law has a 2020 Intel MacBook Air.

But yeah, Firefox, Edge, Chrome, and Brave don't seem to crash on RAM intensive websites like Safari does at the moment, so should be good.

 

[DougiePhresh]

Seems to be Safari specific, yeah. A couple of the websites that would cause the warning to pop up and eventually crash seem to work perfectly fine in other browsers. I'm hoping a fix comes soon.

I did check the websites on older versions of Safari on intel Macs running older macOS versions (Mojave and Catalina) and I wasn't able to replicate the issue. I don't have easy access to an Intel Mac that can run Big Sur to test and see though might be able to check in a few days as my mother-in-law has a 2020 Intel MacBook Air.

But yeah, Firefox, Edge, Chrome, and Brave don't seem to crash on RAM intensive websites like Safari does at the moment, so should be good.

Okay, thank you for the thoughtful response !

I really hope Apple deals with this issue soon. This, among some other things, has been slowly eroding my love for Apple products. Maybe I am crazy, but I remember 10 years ago when I bought my first MacBook Pro... that thing was built like a tank and I rarely (if ever) had any software issues with it. Today, these machines feel like they will break if a gentle breeze blows on it in the wrong direction, but my major issue is that I am dealing with an ever-increasing number of incredibly irritating and frustrating bugs in the software.

 

[11235813]

Safari Technology Preview solves this problem on most websites for me. I used to encounter it mainly on video sites, but with STP the memory leak problem seems to be solved.

 

[DougiePhresh]

Safari Technology Preview solves this problem on most websites for me. I used to encounter it mainly on video sites, but with STP the memory leak problem seems to be solved.

So I just tried this... instead of Safari spontaneously reloading and kind of disrupting my workflow... my entire computer froze and I had to hard reset it 😂.

Thank you for the suggestion though