Safari high memory usage.

[wakerider017]

Look like safari is taking up a bunch of RAM. Only 1 website open...

It always seems to take up a bunch of space...

Any ideas?

 

[WildCowboy]

It's completely normal...Safari frequently eats 500-600+ MB of RAM on my PB with 1.5 GB RAM.

That doesn't mean it's the way it should be, but unfortunately that's the way it works.

 

[epochblue]

If you don't like the amount of space it's using, you can always quit and restart the app...

 

[darkwing]

Apple isn't capable of writing very efficient software, so that's how it goes... firefox eats a lot too, but not nearly as much.

 

[epochblue]

Apple isn't capable of writing very efficient software, so that's how it goes... firefox eats a lot too, but not nearly as much.

Wow - that's a bold (and, IMO, largely uninformed) claim. I would Apple does a fine job of writing efficient software. And what's with lumping Firefox in with "Apple Software?" Apple has less than nothing to do with Firefox and its development.

Edit: It occurs to me that I could be misreading your tone and meaning in a huge way, and if I am, I apologize for the snappy response. If you didn't mean it how I read it, how did you mean it?