Excessive memory usage (Bitwarden 1.31.3 (2320) on MacOS 12.3)

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I have noticed that, over time, Bitwarden seems to take more and more RAM. As of this writing, the Bitwarden client – I’m not using the plug in at all – is sitting on 708MB of RAM. This seems absurd to me, given the relatively lightweight nature of the application.

Is there a known cause for this? Is there a known way one can reduce its memory footprint?

NB I am NOT referring to the Safari plug in. I do not use the plug-in. It is not enabled.

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Hi @Chet - is this on Mac Intel or M1 architecture?

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M1 Macbook pro.

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Same problem here: Bitwarden is using 1.7 GB RAM on my M1 MB Pro.

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On my MacBook Air (M1) w/macOS 12.3.1, I’m using both the Bitwarden desktop app (v1.33.0 (2645)) and Safari extension (v1.58.0). Bitwarden Safari Web Extension is using up 1.49GB of memory.

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Hey everyone, this issue is beeing tracked on Github here. For anyone experiencing this issue, are you using lots of tabs?