Why is Safari such a memory hog?

[MBX]

Using nearly 1GB of Ram visiting a simple site. What gives?

 

[Isair]

In my case it was the adblock extension. Uninstalling it fixed the memory problem for me. Still a bit high but not 1GB at least.

 

[maflynn]

Because the apple developers produced a bloated application that is consuming far too much resources.

Safari has always been a resource hog and rife with memory leaks, little has changed and it still consumes way too much ram.

 

[SannyD]

i hear ya. i like to have many tabs open..FF is normally good for what i need but it was crashing too much and i lost my restore option so i was pissed.
i go to safari and realize it takes atleast 3 gigs when i surf.
yea..im modifying...but damn thats alot.

 

[frostmane]

Wow,with 1G memory I can open dozen of web page.

 

[ufkdo]

That's why I gave up using Safari (I deleted it even from dock )

 

[ugahairydawgs]

Have you tried installing Click to Flash? I noticed the program itself was much faster once that was installed (never checked the memory usage, so I can't really help there).

 

[Consultant]

Try Firefox and checkout your CPU usage.

Safari works great. I sometimes have up to 100 tabs open in Safari. It consumes less CPU power (and battery life) than other browsers.