Safari is reloading due to high memory usage in Tahoe 26

Trying to load photos in Google Photos Safari reloads due to high memory usage and stops the upload. I have just upgraded to Tahoe 26. No problem in Sequoia. Maybe some infancy errors.



Victor

MacBook Air 15″

Posted on Sep 16, 2025 10:18 AM

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Sep 16, 2025 10:25 AM in response to victorkr

Or you have some incompatible third party processes running on startup. You can post the free EtreCheck report that will identify launch processes and also show what is using the most amount of memory. Also included are relevant diagnostic reports for any recent hangs or crashes in those processes. The report contains no personal information.

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Sep 16, 2025 04:31 PM in response to victorkr

I would approach this in a couple of ways. Since the problem seems specific to the photos at Google, remove the system files installed by Google and try again. To find them, go to Finder and choose the Go menu, then Go to Folder. Copy and paste each location there and delete the file, or move to a folder on the Desktop where you can revert after testing. Many of these are unsigned and that should not be the case. Don't forget the "~" character at the start of the last 3 of them.

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.google.GoogleUpdater.wake.system.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.google.keystone.agent.plist

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.daemon.plist

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.GoogleUpdater.wake.plist

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist


If the problem is not resolve there, then move to the network monitoring app Fing, since you are dealing with a network connection. You can always reinstall or move the file to a folder on your Desktop to move back after testing.

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.fing.service.plist


And finally, since Watchman is unsigned and monitors changes in Files/Folder that may have been "touched" after the update. This may have been a Homebrew installation.

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.facebook.watchman.plist

Safari is reloading due to high memory usage in Tahoe 26

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