On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:58 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: > My, my... Didn't realize the doo-doo I'd stepped into. And I don't even have > any plugins or extensions! > The best advice from that discussion link is to 'wait for Mountain Lion'. > Wow, can you say, 'Punt'?
Yeah, Safari is insanely buggy. The 3.x versions were great, 4.x were sluggish, and 5.x started having memory leaks like no tomorrow and getting the error message you see. On my 16GB iMac, Safari Web Content process is usually eating up over 100% CPU [quad core Core i7] and at least 9GB of my memory. And that's with 3 Safari windows open and at most 5 tabs open in each window. I rarely run Safari now, and even when I do and have one window open with 2 or 3 tabs, I see nearly the same results [and my entire system slows to a crawl]. I've stayed with Firefox and they've made huge memory improvements as well as speed improvements. I rarely open Safari these days. Note that I'm running on multiple Macs and all my 10.6.8 systems suffer this issue with Safari [Mac mini, an older Core 2 Duo iMac and MBP, etc]. On my 10.7 and 10.8 VMs, I have never bothered to run Safari, so I can't say if the memory issues are solved or not [and i can't comment on 10.8 anyway!]. /vjl/_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
