Safari high energy usage

[meteoreos]

Hi

I have a 2015 MBP 15" and the 'energy impact' of Safari is relatively high around 30. Sometimes it spikes even further to 90. All I'm doing is browsing a few pages and watching YT.

Tried SMC and NVRAM reset, but no avail.

Any ideas?

 

[deany]

Hi

I'd run a scan with https://www.malwarebytes.com/

how many tabs are open in Safari?

 

[matram]

I have a 2015 MBP 15" and the 'energy impact' of Safari is relatively high around 30. Sometimes it spikes even further to 90. All I'm doing is browsing a few pages and watching YT.

You can expand the safari line in Activity Monitor and see energy impact per process / web page. That should give you an indication of what is going on. This is what my 15" shows with only MR open:

 

[meteoreos]

So yeah, I have no idea why it's taking so much or if that's normal (new to Mac)

 

[sn0warmy]

Safari hovers around 26 - 30 on my 13" tMBP. It was relatively the same on my 2015 15" MBP as well. Chrome is just as bad, or worse. I think this is just the cost of doing business with browsers these days.

 

[Howard2k]

Energy impact is relative. So doing the same task in Safari with nothing open should give a higher figure than with out her CPU intensive tasks going on. The number itself in isolation is not hugely relevant.

 

[Altis]

I'd advise trying another browser and compare the energy usage.

I do know that Safari runs really poorly on my MacBook Pro while Chrome runs really well, especially when it comes to YouTube video playback.