Finder doesn’t leak after all
KEEP A WATCH on how much memory the Finder uses while you’re browsing images and other files with custom thumbnails or icons, and you’ll see that increases steadily. Browse or select hundreds of files, and it can rise to GB. Many had assumed that’s a memory leak, and the only way to get that memory back is to restart the Finder.
We were wrong! That memory hasn’t leaked away, it has just been borrowed. If your Mac’s
