Safari memory leak

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Safari memory leak

I've just updated to Monterey 12.6.1 and Safari 16.1. I have been shutting down Safari daily or more frequently to avoid it sucking memory. I accidentally left it running overnight and it's crept up to a reported 48.65 GB, see image. I'm surely not the only person encountering this? I have 24 GB RAM fitted in a Late 2015 iMac with i7 and AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4 GB graphics card.

Unless there is a fix, I'm going to stop using Safari. Are there any recent suggested fixes?

iMac 27″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Oct 27, 2022 4:19 PM

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Answer 1

stoyan4

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Oct 28, 2022 2:06 AM in response to __Bloodaxe

hi, you are not the only one -- i can see the same with safari 16.1 on ventura (MBP 15-inch, 2017). if safari runs long enough it locks-up the entire system (swaps and eats out all available disk space). i had to start using Safari Technology Preview instead (current Release 156, Safari 16.4 seems to work ok for me).

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__Bloodaxe Author

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Oct 28, 2022 4:01 PM in response to stoyan4

Thanks, stoyan4, that gave me a ray of hope. Sadly, even with the latest Safari Technology Preview you mention above, I'm up to 45 GB overnight, so no discernible improvement. Chrome rarely gets above what it is now, about 3 GB including its GPU helper, even if it's running for weeks. I think I need to give up on Safari until they fix it. If I don't remember to kill it every so often, the whole machine becomes unusable and needs a hard reset. Anybody have any other suggestions?

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Dec 10, 2022 3:16 AM in response to __Bloodaxe

I got the same problem on my 13" Macbook Pro 2018 with four Thunderbolt ports (i7, 16GB, 1 TB)..

It started with an Monterey Update. Than I upgraded to Ventura 13.0.0 - here it was fine, I didn´t hit the bug. After updating to 13.0.1 the problem came back.

Now I´m waiting for a fix from Apple. I still reported it via Feedback Assistant - unfortunately Apple never sent any feedback....

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Dec 15, 2022 6:28 AM in response to __Bloodaxe

Looks like it´s solved in MacOS Ventura 13.1 with Safari 16.2.

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ipsz

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Jan 26, 2023 12:57 AM in response to SchumacherMichael

It 2023, Safari 16.3 still is a toy, not a serious web browser. 10GB per tab is common. Shame Apple.

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