Easing Safari’s burden
This may not be news to anybody else, but I tried a little experiment: when my poor old PowerBook G4 seemed to be struggling (fans spinning, windows becoming less responsive) I took a look at Activity Monitor and saw that Safari was using over a quarter of the ‘book’s available CPU cycles. Of course the best solution would be to close some of those windows, but they’re open for me to look at, and I was feeling too tired and lazy to go through them all, and besides, couldn’t there be a quick fix? Yes indeedy! The handy-dandy “Window → Merge All Windows” menu selection seemed to do the trick! Okay, so granted that I now have 23 tabs crammed into one window, but I saw that Safari’s CPU usage dropped by around 45%. Cool!
…and cool-er! The fan doesn’t need to run as much either. It would be pretty quiet here now if not for my wife’s Microsoft-issue Toshiba… ;-)
So there you have it, a quick-fix for those times when Safari’s hogging your CPU. But then, you’re not so crazy to have that many windows open, are you?
