[ambush]

Safari.app Leaks - When is Apple going to acknowledge/fix this?

I have to restart it like.... very very very often, so it doesnt eat all my ram. Imagine this: with no window open, it can take like 50%+ of real memory.

A pain in the ass!

[TETENAL]

Apple acknowledged already that Safari has memory leaks. Read the Surfin' Safari blog and you'll see them mention it a few times.

When are they going to fix it? They'll fix it as they find the bugs. It's not like they simply have to set a "do not leak" compiler flag.

[Don Pickett]

Originally Posted by TETENAL

It's not like they simply have to set a "do not leak" compiler flag.

Hee hee hee!

[Todd Madson]

If it were that easy they would have the ability to add things like "make it go ludicrously
fast" and "organize links in a visually beautiful manner" and the "antispam" feature.

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by Todd Madson

If it were that easy they would have the ability to add things like "make it go ludicrously
fast" and "organize links in a visually beautiful manner" and the "antispam" feature.

[ambush]

TETENAL, I think you're taking this too lightly. Memory leaks in such an essential applications are the worst thing. They slow the whole system down to a crawl, they take HD space (VM space), etc.

I know that leaks are hard to fix (I probably spent a whole day fixing leaks in my own app.), but still they should be fixed before implementing new features.

[TheIceMan]

Yeah, this version of Safari 2.0.3 does have a memory leak. Sucks.

[monkeybrain]

It's certainly a problem, but as sort of a solution you could try using Shiira (http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en) instead of Safari - it renders things the same but seems to use less memory and CPU (looks nicer too I think, although it uses a silly drawer).

[analogika]

Originally Posted by ambush

TETENAL, I think you're taking this too lightly. Memory leaks in such an essential applications are the worst thing. They slow the whole system down to a crawl, they take HD space (VM space), etc.

I know that leaks are hard to fix (I probably spent a whole day fixing leaks in my own app.), but still they should be fixed before implementing new features.

What exactly do you think the Safari development team is doing?

[JKT]

Originally Posted by ambush

TETENAL, I think you're taking this too lightly. Memory leaks in such an essential applications are the worst thing. They slow the whole system down to a crawl, they take HD space (VM space), etc.

I know that leaks are hard to fix (I probably spent a whole day fixing leaks in my own app.), but still they should be fixed before implementing new features.

Read the blog... I don't know if those fixes have been rolled into the shipping version of WebKit/Safari yet, but they are working on them. FWIW, Shiira is going to suffer a similar number of leaks as it uses the same WebKit as Safari (I only say similar as there could be memory leaks from the rest of the app as well which may differ between Shiira and Safari).

[Benton]

Try Camino.
http://www.caminobrowser.org/

[Eug Wanker]