Why does Safari eat +200MB of memory on every page reload while the Web Inspector is open?

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Why does Safari eat +200MB of memory on every page reload while the Web Inspector is open? On any site.
Safari eats +200MB of memory on every page reload while the Web Inspector is open. On any site.
Open google, open Web Inspector:

Reload the page 6-8 times:

Reload the page 6-8 more times:

Memory information from Web Inspector:

So why is Safari eating so much memory and not clearing it? How can this be avoided?

Answer 1

In Chrome, in dev. Tools have a checkbox - save information even when the page is reloaded. Saved - console, list of requests, etc.
Are you sure you don't have one enabled?