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In the case of Safari (completely clean and not ever used), the memory consumption does not appear to 'balloon' as it does in Orion. After around 15 minutes of trying to recreate it this is what Activity Monitor reports:

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    Dustin Thank you this should be concrete steps to reproduce it then. Very good!

        I should note that I changed number of displayed strings from 10 to 100. Forgot to mention that.

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          Vlad Sorry, Vlad. Totally understand your need for reproducible steps and that is not providing them can be frustrating. If I could, I would. But to me the problem only happens every few days and as I’m using Orion as my primary browser, it’s hard to isolate. I was hoping the Console dump might help.

          Glad to see that Justin found one way to reproduce a memory leak.
          If I find some spare time, I’ll see if I can reproduce that too.

              Vlad Step 3 when loading the language and list of strings.

                  17 days later

                  Dustin We we re investigating this today and in your safari screenshot, there is 2GB useed by Localazy. it does seem to indicate usage balooning?

                      @Vlad From my experience testing them, I would say no. It appears that while Safari does take a lot of memory in this usage, it seems to plateau whereas Orion appears to continue to use more and more memory.

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                        Dustin This is purely caused by WebKit process and it could be just a difference in WebKit used by Orion and Safari. So we can check with the next release which will use newer webkit

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                            Don't know how I messed it up, but the title should be 41 GB, not 45. Sorry!

                            Steps to reproduce:

                            I had only three tabs open at the time: Prime Video, Terraria Wiki Page, and Twitter

                            Expected behavior:

                            I closed it out, but I find that it still eats RAM. I can't use it anymore because I can't have my system telling me it's run out of memory the way that it did, especially when it should have had plenty of it to use left (see attached image)

                            Orion, OS version; hardware type:

                            Orion, macOS Monterey, M1 14-inch MacBook Pro 16GB

                            Image/Video:

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                              eirk Yeah, that's what I thought. Sucks for now because I love the browser. It's got everything I like from all of the others put into one.

                                  Does this consistently happen (like once every few minutes, hours, days), or this the only time it happened (or a few other times too)?

                                    BTW, therehave been a lot of other apps that have similar memory leaks. it could actually be a macOS bug (memory leaks were super common, relatively, in some version of Monterey)

                                    Also, I suggest updating ur mac to the latest OS version.

                                      Jakobus We can not know what caused it just from a screenshot. It could be an extension you used. It could be anything.

                                      The real question is can you consistently reproduce it? If you can, and it is Orion's fault, we can fix it.

                                          Vlad changed the title to Possible memory leak .
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                                              Since I am using my laptop at the moment as a replacement for a desktop, I leave it on day and night. this also means my orion is left running day and night. this mornign ( not sure after how long conttant running) I came back to the machine telling me it was out of working memory, and my OS showed me Orion was using 36GB of memory.
                                              so steps to reproduce: Mac OS-X 13.1. start Orion, keep browsing, leave Orion open permanently for a couple of dys while using it.
                                              the The Orion Web Content process will grow, but when closing tabs, not clear the used memory . only when closing Orion completely teh memory is cleared.

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