Help Menu ***** up RAM

I've been using Safari 3.0.4 and noticed the 700+MB (RSIZE) usage lately and been trying to track down the culprit. Recently I noticed that it would chug along fine at about 80MB, but the moment I selected the "Help" menu, it would stop; Activity monitor would register 100-150% CPU Usage (Core2Duo) and the Active RAM usage would skyrocket to 600-700MB.
...this memory usage persists until I quit and relaunch. What's going on here?

Hi
Welcome to Apple Discussions
said "s_ucks up RAM"
The auto- censors are a bit sensitive in the AD forums. Nothing to take personally.
Glad you posted your experience. I think it would be helpful to send it to Apple via the Safari Menu>Report Bugs to Apple. While Apple doesn't usually respond to these notices, the information can prove helpful for software engineers. Safari 3.0.4 still has some oddities needing to be sorted out.
I'll also send a Bug Report. Prior to accessing "help", Safari was using 130 mb of Real Memory. After accessing "help" it's now over 550 mb. Egads!

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