[beta] Zotero consuming 1GB of RAM

Currently using Zotero 7.0.0-beta (native Apple Silicon) on an M3 MacBook.

Activity Monitor shows Zotero consistently consuming 600MB - 1.5GB of RAM when open in the background.

Because the Chrome extension to save articles doesn't work if Zotero isn't open in the background, this seems like a bit of a problem.

I don't remember the non-beta version consuming this much RAM (my memory is a consistent ~400MB?).

Opening articles on Zotero makes the memory consumed shoot up and seemingly stay up, even when not looking at the article. Is there a "memory saver" feature s.t. only the article one is looking at stays in RAM?
  • I'm not sure how it compares to previous Zotero versions, but keeping open multiple PDFs is always a RAM demanding activity. macOS Preview also consumes a ton of RAM when many PDFs are open.
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