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Re:M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness by soapdog on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:05AM (#25288888)
I might be mistaken but, IIRC many browsers will not free memory from closed tabs. They'll keep it and reuse it for new tabs instead of deallocating and reallocating too often as you play with tabs.
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Re:M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness by ceejayoz on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:05AM (#25288893)
Yes, but it's not doing that.

Every new tab incurs more RAM usage; it's not reusing. Usage keeps growing and growing until the system gets sluggish and it prompts me to kill Safari.

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