On 13/05/2012, at 11:34 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: > Ray, excellent overview and good job at layman-ising the terminology used. > Thank you. > > Ronni, thanks for the extra detail ... I was beginning to doubt my grasp of > English. > > Robin, thanks for the note that recent Safari updates actually address these > issues. I'd seen and installed the latest OS update (ie. 10.7.4), which MIGHT > have been the things which solved my problem, but on running Software Update > saw that there was also a Safari update. Installed that 12 May (version > 5.1.7) and at this point, my hard disk capacity remains at the capacity it > was when I last restarted, whereas by now it probably would have dwindled. > Fingers crossed that whatever memory leakage problem had crept in has been > knocked on the head. I do use Safari mostly, occasionally Firefox for > websites which Safari has trouble with, and often have many tabs (10, 20, 30) > open at any one time before I get chance and close a few back down. >
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