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right now I have 21 tabs open in Safari, the number of tabs varies but it’s been over a dozen for awhile, and it’s been open for several days. It’s using 284 MB of real memory.

I haven’t had any memory consumption issues with Safari. Now, I'm running some adblock stuff and a ‘click to flash’ app that requires clicking on a flash application to run it, so maybe that helps.