Jean-Jacques GUILLEMAUD

Too many https incompatibilities

For the sake of completeness, I also disabled ALL Plug-Ins in addition to disabling ALL Extensions. No difference : the WebKit Active and Inactive memory is not released unless I quit WebKit

I uninstalled and disabled ALL extensions; I kept all previous plug-ins active. The memory growth is quite slower, and I need to open about 12-15 ebay Tabs to reach the same memory usage as before. BUT when I close all those Tabs, the memory is again NOT released, neither the "Active" nor "Inactive/Cached" part. I tried to close the last Tab/Window, but then Webkit hanged on, and I had to force quit. Would it help if I could install your 'vmmaps' tool ? But if it just gives the pages total and does...

I just checked, and "Roccat LepWK.app" [relinked with WebKit-604.4.5-Leopard-PowerPC.dmg] has the same problem : memory is not freed when you close Tabs, and you have to restart the browser to free it. Roccat.app [NOT-LepWK] has a much slower memory growth.

Hi Tobias, here is the way to reproduce it quickly : restart the Mac [not needed, just to be clean] start WebKit check WebKit in Activity Monitor : Threads : 15 Real Memory : 87.25MB Virtual Memory : 357.20MB go to https://www.ebay.fr search for LED+COB+B22 open 7 tabs from the results in the same window (right click) wait for them to fill up check WebKit in Activity Monitor : Threads : 75 Real Memory : 1.20GB Virtual Memory : 1.66GB When this stage is reached, closing the Tabs does not help, opening...

Webkit Memory Leak ?