memory hog - mac (how to fix?)
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- dconstrukt
I'm noticing safari EATING a shitload of ram on my macbook (2011 17 inch, 500 gig SSD + 16 gigs of ram)
what do I do?
I have ghostery installed on safari + click to flash plugin as well.
also have an app called memory clean, seems to work ok but the damn safari EATS memory... specifically "safari web content"
Chrome is great, but i really like having the sidebar on safari with the bookmarks... MUCH more enjoyable to browse than in chrome.
any suggestions?
- uan0
install a bookmark sidebar extension in chrome, like tidy sidebar.
but why do you need to free up ram anyway, the system handles that pretty well in my experience
- dconstrukt0
Think I tried tidy sidebar but wasn't thrilled with it... (gonna recheck)
i'm still on 10.7.5 LOL I probably need to upgrade my OS, eh?
- 10.8 was the last cat and it fixed lots of stuff. for sure the most finished osx.
I wouldn't necessary go higher (mavericks...).uan - Mountain Lions live in Yosemite though. ;)monospaced
- 10.8 was the last cat and it fixed lots of stuff. for sure the most finished osx.
- monospaced0
I noticed it too, and moved to Chrome. I checked in Activity monitor and at first it appears Chrome uses less memory, but then you notice it has up to a dozen "Chrome Helper" apps running, and it actually eats up just as much, or more memory, than Safari. It's actually crazy how much memory a single tab or plug-in demands, regardless of browser. Have not found a good solution.
- so far with safari off and just chrome, the memory hog isn't really AS baddconstrukt
- sofakingback0
I had similar issues, with an almost identical setup. My fan goes crazy too.
- vaxorcist1
I think the issue is not the browser, but ads and runaway scripts running on some web pages, so if you install an adblock plugin, and a flashblock plugin, .... and a but less ADHD surfing, you have less RAM wastage, that, and try not to leave FB running on a web page in the background....
whereas having a bunch of tabs of plain-text web pages, like say Wikipedia, .... with no ads rarely seems to use up much RAM....
- << great advice. I blocked all that stuff, and found a difference on my MBP. Apps with ads on my smartphone seem to drain RAM and battery a bit faster, too.BuddhaHat
- i'm in advertising, so i like to see ads on the pages somewhat... so not sure if an ad blocker would be the best thing?dconstrukt
- it's a button you can toggle in the top corner of the browser, you can turn it on and off as your browsing requires. *cough*porn*cough*BuddhaHat
- jaylarson0
how many tabs do you have open?
- dconstrukt0
vaxorcist - it's possible but ghostery extension is supposed to block all those pixels from firing so that shouldn't be much of an issue...
jaylarson - depends, now i have 5 in safari as I type this.
i mean with 16 gigs of ram, it should have i would think 7-10 free must of the time? i mean thats what I would assume... but damn the safari web content EATS memory...
- vaxorcist0
Not sure what ghostery blocks....
maybe it's not so much the pixels but some runaway javascript code running in the background that's in stuck in some loop that uses up more and more memory... especially scripts that check a server for new content or such....
... I've experimented with turning off javascript and found my browser RAM issues decrease rapidly, but so does the usefulness of the web.... I've used NoScript in Firefox, you have to give permission to the web page to do stuff in Javascript... not a very seemless exeperience, but the RAM issues are much better!