Skype 6.21.104 is consuming way too much memory
Tags :Technical
I am an avid user of Skype and have let it update itself pretty regularly. Even automatically. However the Skype 6.21.104 update this week is consuming tons of machine memory. And it continued to grow
So I uninstalled Skype 6.21.104 to go back to an older version. My choice was the last Skype 5 version I could find of 5.10.0.116 and ran into a new issue
Since yesterday, all versions of Skype below Skype 6.13 for Windows and Skype 6.14 for OS X are blocked and do not allow you to sign in.
There are all sorts of hacks and workarounds to get old versions to go but that was not what I needed. I wanted to go back at least a few point releases to lower the memory usage again. So this got troublesome. Skype has the newest version plus the very slick looking beta. By the way the beta used even more memory as shown here
So I dug around for sites with the older version listed. I was lucky to find the whole list on Soft32. I went back to 6.14.132.104 and got the following memory results
So for now I will stay on an older version of Skype, even though the new beta was much nicer looking.
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On Thursday, October 16th, 2014 by Chris Miller
