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Speed38

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I have paid for the Pro version of EtreCheck and run it once monthly.




Today on my 2020 iMac, SSD, macOS 13.2, EtreCheck spit out two alerts, which I have attached, indicating a problem with com.apple.WebKit taking up too much RAM and using too much of the CPU.

Searching the Apple Support site I found this:

It's using up a ton of memory because of a processor-intensive website or websites that you're on. Any website that has a lot of video/audio/Flash/Java/etc. will cause that. It's basically exactly what it says — the content of the websites.

Should I just quit Safari from time to time to fix that?

Here are screenshots of the EtreCheck alerts:

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