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Safari webpages use lots of energy
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I don't know if you're doing anything else in the background, but if so, obviously it'll suck up a lot of RAM.
I'd recommend testing it out with Waterfox since it's less resource-heavy.
If you're able to upgrade your RAM, that'll be a plus, too.
Maybe having less apps open may help as well. Usually I keep Photos open as well as MS Word but I may not do this since they are memory hoggs.
I don't know what else the OP is running, but I've never had an issue on my iMac with 8GB of ram. That includes running office apps, safari, chrome (at the same time), and Lightroom. I see the ram pressure go from green to yellow, but that's it.
It would be answer if he was using Chrome maybe, even then probably not. 8 GB is only not enough if you have enormous amount of tabs opened.
Are you running any extensions?
Facebook uses ReactJS ( a javascript kit ) that provides immediate response to the front end user at the cost of more energy/processing power. This is not necessarily bad as the browser will balance the ratio ( interactivity / energy consumption / ram consumption ) for you. Safari is a bit more biased to less energy, chrome is a little more biased to more responsiveness.
8G should be plenty, your Mac OS will occassionally use excess ram for background processing: indexing, ect.
No, I'd say ram or lack of ram is the issue at all. 8GB is more then enough for macOS, in fact there are people rocking with 4GB just fine. As I mentioned, my iMac has 8GB its been quite responsive.
Go to Safari Preferences > Advanced > uncheck "stop plug-ins to save power"
You can have this message for a number of reasons, it's hard to tell the exact cause. Just make sure you get rid of flash if you don't need it. This error message has nothing to do with the number of apps opened. Since Mavericks Safari informs you when a webpage uses more power than "normal" so that you can better manage your battery. I'm on a Mac Pro so that's a rather irrelevant feature for me but for laptops I guess it serves a purpose.
You can have this message for a number of reasons, it's hard to tell the exact cause. Just make sure you get rid of flash if you don't need it. This error message has nothing to do with the number of apps opened. Since Mavericks Safari informs you when a webpage uses more power than "normal" so that you can better manage your battery. I'm on a Mac Pro so that's a rather irrelevant feature for me but for laptops I guess it serves a purpose.
I've gotten that message on an iMac Pro with 32GB, so perhaps there is more to it than just that.
OP wrote:
"Maybe having less apps open may help as well. Usually I keep Photos open as well as MS Word but I may not do this since they are memory hoggs."
This could have something "to do with it".
How many tabs do you have open in Safari?
It could be that Facebook (I do not use FB) could be very resource-intensive.
8gb should be fine.
I don't think you "need more RAM".
"Maybe having less apps open may help as well. Usually I keep Photos open as well as MS Word but I may not do this since they are memory hoggs."
This could have something "to do with it".
How many tabs do you have open in Safari?
It could be that Facebook (I do not use FB) could be very resource-intensive.
8gb should be fine.
I don't think you "need more RAM".