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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by chronial on Monday December 04, 2017 @06:44PM (#15848608)
That github page and the apng made my firefox eat multiple gigabytes of ram and almost killed my system.
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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by satysin on Monday December 04, 2017 @07:35PM (#15848851)
Holy crap you weren't kidding!

Fresh start of latest release version of Firefox and it shoots up to 4GB memory the moment I open just that page!

https://i.imgur.com/KJaWy2G.png

Note that Chrome also has the same page open (as well as several others) and is using less than 800MB memory.

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