On 2010-11-12 23:21 , Ashley Aitken wrote:
My MacBook Pro (with only 4GB) has been running quite slow lately and, 
particularly, I've noticed Safari has become really slow, even to switch 
between tabs and/or close tabs (taking many seconds, e.g 5-10).

i've had a similar problem intermittently, but only in the last few days; switching tabs would take 30-60 seconds, as would any interaction with a webform; i found restarting Safari fixed it temporarily, and then i seemed to find a culprit: Acrobat Pro 8 -- it had wrested control of viewing PDFs in Safari; i suspect it was in combination with one or more Safari extensions; i disabled Acrobat PDF viewing and haven't had the problem again, so far


This is probably due to tabs/windows being in separate processes (or so I 
believe).

Safari won't do this until it uses WebKit2, which it doesn't; i haven't heard much about the WebKit2 project lately ...

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I have also installed a few extensions (duplicate tab, exposé view, automatic 
status bar), but nothing serious or buggy I thought.  However, the other day I 
noticed Safari was using 2GB of *real* memory.  Ouch!

Safari rarely reaches 1GB for me (currently 719MB); i usually have 40-80 tabs, but i avoid running Flash (Click2FLash)
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