How do I stop Safari taking up ALL active memory?

When Safari is closed, I have about 530 MB free system memory.  I open Safari, and over the next 5 minutes it takes over all free memory, until I have about 40 MB free and 490 active.  This means that all other programs crawl and freeze, and Safari constantly hangs.  Force-quitting and emptying the cache at least once a day makes better, but only a little bit.
But how do I stop Safari doing this??
Regards, Leel7

Hi Gibby,
How much free space is on the HD, where has all the space gone?
OmniDiskSweeper is likely the easiest/best, and is now free...
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/download/
And if needed, you can use Terminal to run it in admin mode to see files/folders your user can't see...
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_to_recover_missing_hard_drive_space/

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