Existing users, 
Safari's memory leak: http://www.flickr.com/photos/webmotiva/397949733/
I did the same procedure.
Open a directory with 40 sites in tabs. Back to only 1 page (www.apple.com).
Check how Safari does not take the ram back!
Firefox
web browser
Version: 3.0.4
The best by far, and with no memory leak (Safari)
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: webmotiva.com Saturday, February 24 2007 @ 04:39 AM PST
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Comments
I'm not convinced of the leak - tryme
Safari does indeed leak RAM. I have about 8 sites that I leave open in tabs as I check them several times daily. After several days Safari will have used 500-600MB of RAM and has gone up to 900MB a couple of times.I have run exactly the same condition using both Firefox & Camino - both only use 110MB (the same as Safari starts on) and stay at that level - at one stage up to 8 days.
Saturday, February 24 2007 @ 02:46 PM PST
I'm not convinced of the leak - tryme
Safari does indeed leak RAM. I have about 8 sites that I leave open in tabs as I check them several times daily. After several days Safari will have used 500-600MB of RAM and has gone up to 900MB a couple of times.I have run exactly the same condition using both Firefox & Camino - both only use 110MB (the same as Safari starts on) and stay at that level - at one stage up to 8 days.
Saturday, February 24 2007 @ 02:52 PM PST
I'm not convinced of the leak - webmotiva.com
I did the test again, including cleaning the cache but the result is the same. I really don't knoe if it's a PPC error. I still use a G5.Sunday, February 25 2007 @ 04:50 AM PST
I'm not convinced of the leak - webmotiva.com
I did the test again, including cleaning the cache but the result is the same. I really don't knoe if it's a PPC error. I still use a G5.Sunday, February 25 2007 @ 04:53 AM PST
I'm not convinced of the leak - webmotiva.com
I did the test again, including cleaning the cache but the result is the same. I really don't knoe if it's a PPC error. I still use a G5.Sunday, February 25 2007 @ 04:54 AM PST
I'm not convinced of the leak - Lickableunix
With the greatest respect:Safari is indeed a major RAM hog, but you haven't yet convinced me that it is leaking RAM. I may be wrong, but believe this is probably an inflated Safari Cache. Safari has always had (I believe) aggressive caching to speed page loading. Try your experiment, but empty the Safari Cache right before you measure how much RAM returns. It does return a fair amount on my system, 1.33 GHz G4 12" iBook 1.5GB RAM.
My tests are not complete yet though. Do also remember OS X has some other RAM thirsty processes going on. I'm using iStat nano 1.51 widget (not the most recent version but the one before) to view my RAM usage.
very best regards,
sgs, new orleans
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