I dumped Safari!

[Drew]

OS 10.6.8 with latest Safari (5.1). It kept leaking memory, spinning beachball, crashes. Used Click-to-Flash and Click-to-PlugIn for quite a while, but still problems. I've always used Safari and am not a heavy browser user, but it's become a real hassle. I switched to FireFox. We'll see how it goes.

[Black]

I have never used Safari as my main browser, but switching to Firefox is out of the fire and into the furnace.
Still sticking by it but I've noticed Google Chrome seems to work much better. I'd recommend that before you get too comfy with Firefox.

[rich in distress]

Reset Safari (Menu Safari, 7th option).

[haikuman]

I am still in Safari 5.0.5... seems to hold up pretty well for me.

[nwyaker]

rich in distress wrote:
Reset Safari (Menu Safari, 7th option).

Thanks ! That helped a lot. Activity Monitor was showing nearly 2 gigs of RAM used, now down to about 300 MB.

[Drew]

rich in distress wrote:
Reset Safari (Menu Safari, 7th option).

Yes, I've done that quite a bit. Also optimize memory from time to time with "iCleanMemory". Tired of having to clean up after Safari or experience a breakdown if I don't. I'll check out Chrome as well.

[Winston]

Take a look at Camino. I like the interface better than Firefox's.
http://caminobrowser.org/

I keep all three handy as occasionally there is still a web page that won't work properly in one or two of the three.


Good luck.

- Winston

[IronMac]

Safari is one of the worst programs I have yet to encounter. Not only do I need to shut it down once every 3 days but I strongly suspect that it's the reason why I need to shut down my MBP once every week or so.

I am using Firefox as my primary work browser but may switch over to Chrome as my main browser.

[Uncle Wig]

I dunno. I use Safari heavily, all day every day for work. Many tabs, etc. etc. I very seldom have any problems. Right now it's using 450 mb of real memory. Safari 5.1, 10.6.8.

I'm gonna suggest there are other issues with your system.

:dunno:

[Drew]

Uncle Wig wrote:
I'm gonna suggest there are other issues with your system.

:dunno:

Could be, though I've seen lots of threads about memory leakage with Safari. I'll see if Firefox or Chrome give me similar troubles.