Safari Extensions Memory Leak

I've been testing close to 20 extensions some that have been around for ages and some new ones. I've found that everyone of them eventually eats up a ton of RAM under the activity Safari Web Content. Having contanted developers, they all blame Apple and say this is a flaw in Safari. It seems to render the feature useless. Anyone else experiencing this?

Until enough people complain, Apple will do nothing. This doesn't happen to this extent in Chrome or Firfox and there is a mechanism to properly toss extensions that are not up to date for a new build of the browser. Get others to write in here and to Apple directly and maybe  they will put resources into fixing it. Shame that they invested in the technology to only allow it to become a sinkhole.

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