Safari :: Why Does Flash Player Use So Much Memory In Lion
Feb 13, 2012
I have an issue I have been seeing since upgrading to Lion (10.7.3) and the latest version of Safari (5.1.3, I believe?). When browsing the web for a while (particularly, Flash heavy sites, I have noticed my computer's temperature getting hot and more beach balling starting to occur. The first time this happened, I opened Activity Monitor and noticed that Flash Player was using, almost, 900 MB of RAM (and I had less than 100 MB available). Other than Safari, I only had a couple of other applications open, neither of which were memory intensive. Quitting Safari gave me back a huge amount of memory, my temperatures, quickly, dropped back down to reasonable levels, and the performance lag went away. I never saw this kind of memory hogging under Snow Leopard. Is Flash Player this much of a nuisance under, either, Firefox or Chrome?
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, 2.53 GHz, i5 with 4 GB of RAM.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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I was given older I-Mac with software installed that worked for most surfing. What can you do to get your newer system back if older version from disks was installed and Apple won't let update your Mac now older system in on the computer?
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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