Re:Apple Safari users suffer crashes
by overcast on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:19AM
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I came in here, to share my experience between Safari and Chrome, and it looks like you've iterated exactly the same sentiment. After El Capitan came out, and the changes to Safari, I REALLY gave it a shot. A sleek interface, and certainly fast, but it chews through RAM at an insane rate. There is no rhyme or reason to it, I can have a fresh window open, restore previous session of ten tabs, and after a few hours, each tab starts consuming 5GB+ of RAM until everything is exhausted. Chrome(Canary) on the other hand, twice as many tabs open, and it never runs away with RAM usage. It still uses a hundred megs per tab, but none of them go crazy. I need to have every browser under the sun installed for testing, but Chrome is the only thing I can keep opening without killing my Mac Pro that has 28GB of RAM.
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Re:Apple Safari users suffer crashes
by ZanyProgrammer on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:53AM
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Its hard to parse these responses because everyone says that their browser that they don't use uses RAM at ridiculous rates.
I use every browser, Safari primarily since El Capitan. It was only in the last week or so that I've just had enough of dealing with it killing my machine. I had to systematically kill each tab process on a regular basis.