[macintologist]

When I took this screenshot I had absolutely no windows open and no downloads going.

Has Apple been fixing this in the new Safari beta?

I'm using 2.0.4 in Tiger.

[Dakarʒ]

Yeah, mines equally ridiculous. And it'll usually lock up after being open for a few days depending on how much surfing I do.

[larkost]

If you note that Safari is actually still chewing on something this is a likely sign that some plugin is still chewing on something, and has absorbed that space. We would have to know an awful lot more about what sites you browsed to before that.

And just because a program takes up some RAM that is not the same thing as being a memory leak. Unless you are using Shark to profile it, you will never know when something is a leak, and when it is simply using more memory. The two are not synonymous.

[Aegis]

Well, leak or not, it seems to consume a crazy amount of ram for what it's doing. It gets bogged down really easily too. Throw a few HR images at Safari and it takes like 5-15 seconds just to switch tabs. Strangely, Opera seems to be the speediest when handling a lot at once. So I use that for heavy duty surfing.

[Kevin]

I have the opposite experience with the newest version of Safari compared to 2.X

[macintologist]

Originally Posted by larkost 

If you note that Safari is actually still chewing on something this is a likely sign that some plugin is still chewing on something, and has absorbed that space. We would have to know an awful lot more about what sites you browsed to before that.

And just because a program takes up some RAM that is not the same thing as being a memory leak. Unless you are using Shark to profile it, you will never know when something is a leak, and when it is simply using more memory. The two are not synonymous.

I have SafariStand installed which means I have to click on a plugin for it to load. For example, if some flash video is embedded on a page, I have to click on that box before the plugin even loads. So obviously, at that point in time, I had no plugins loaded.

[Remxed]

i'm using the safari 3 beta and it does usually take over 100 megs of ram for me. I have no plugins installed. With the intel optimized version of firefox, I usually have 50 megs and that doesnt even take into account of extensions.

[CheesePuff]

With Safari 3.0.3 beta with a window open for some time, mine is only using 51 MB of physical RAM.

[Randman]

Are RSS feeds turned off? Auto-fill off? Those 2 leak the majority of Safari's problems. And that people don't quit Safari from time to time.

[Aegis]

I have both of those off. It's a pain when you're trying to do a good amount of browsing and needing to restart your browser 5+ times a day.

[Kevin]

The problem with these types of threads, and I am not saying this is the case with this one, is that the firefox fanboys come in an exaggerate Safari's "poor performance"

It works tons better than that dodgy Firefox GUI. Or it crashing all the time.