Safarl 5: Serious memory leak

[S.B.G]

Just to add to the "It's AdBlocker!" portion of this thread...

Saw Safari (10.6.6) go all the way up to 1.83GB of Active Memory used today. It's definitely a hog.

Wow! I've never seen anyone post Safari using that much. I've seen mine at most around 550MB. What is your total RAM capacity?

 

[BearsFan34]

Wow! I've never seen anyone post Safari using that much. I've seen mine at most around 550MB. What is your total RAM capacity?

Check my sig, just updated...

Here's a screenshot:

 

[ryannel2003]

Before I got rid of my Aluminum MacBook, I was having quite a few problems with Safari using up all the memory. With 2GB of system memory, it would use up nearly 1GB of the course of a few hours and I had to exit and reload it for the system to become responsive or the whole computer would slow down.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Just to add to the "It's AdBlocker!" portion of this thread...

Saw Safari (10.6.6) go all the way up to 1.83GB of Active Memory used today. It's definitely a hog.

Adblocker has been know to cause this.

 

[nbnbxdnb]

Are you talking about adblocker as a plug-in, or the adblock as extension? I was trying to figure out why my safari ate over 1G memory. It starts to annoy me really. But I don't want to switch for the speed and nice layout.

 

[firefoxsilver9]

yesterday Safari got up to 2.1GB on my 2011 MPB. Right now its hovering at 1.7GB. Its in 64-bit mode and i have the AdBlock extension. Kinda upsetting as i've been switching between browsers for the past few weeks and have finally settled on Safari.

 

[firefoxsilver9]

just tested Safari with the extensions disabled. One of them is definitely causing the issue. I have 43 tabs open and memory usage barely goes over 5-600mb whereas while extensions are enabled, less than 10 tabs open and i'm almost at 1.5GB

I'm having the same issue with Firefox as well and i have a handful of plugins that i use on both browsers (But also on Chrome but its memory usage is fine).

I'll continue to investigate.