VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering

Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by mercer on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:22PM (#13941203)

Over the past year or two Gmail has gotten really slow. I'm not sure what happened, because there are no new features I can think of that would cause this.

It's gotten so bad that I'm considering moving to another provider or using a good old email app again.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by fetbaffe on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:50PM (#13944688)

Outlook.com as well. When it launched, it was blazingly fast. Now it comes with a loading screen and really laggy.

Bloated single page apps is the curse of the modern web.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by ashark on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:02PM (#13946266)

Use the basic HTML version. It's worth the loss of a couple features from regular gmail or inbox for a much snappier UI (even with it fetching full new pages from the server all the time!)

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by mercer on Friday March 24, 2017 @03:09AM (#13947222)

I like my vim-style keyboard shortcuts thought :-/.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by criddell on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:06PM (#13941686)

I've noticed that too! Do you use Inbox? I do and I was thinking about going back to the classic interface to see if it's faster.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by dheera on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:47PM (#13942151)

I tried Inbox. I thought for a while that Gmail stars == Inbox pins. When I found out that I was missing out on emails I had previously starred, I quit and went back to Gmail.

Also, Inbox did not show me full e-mails on my Android Wear smartwatch while Gmail did. Also, I couldn't figure out how to set up the filters I needed in Inbox.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by mercer on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:52PM (#13942207)

Oh, I tried Inbox but Gmail was nice and fast compared to that pos.

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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by merrvk on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:06PM (#13943736)

I would recommend Fastmail. Moved over for similar reasons and never looked back

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