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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by paultopia on Monday March 05, 2018 @08:28PM (#16526177)
Firefox has started sucking battery like crazy for me in the last few days, though. Can't figure out what it is.
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by taneq on Monday March 05, 2018 @10:55PM (#16526742)
I thought it was the 'everything is super fast now' update (whichever one it was, 57 I think?) but maybe it's more recent than that. I was noticing last week that I can actually hear the CPU/GPU fans spinning up on some websites, which it never used to do.
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by rukuu_001 on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:04PM (#16526772)
Are you on a Mac? Had same, but fixed it with some prefs changes. Before that FF was stuck at 8-10% CPU.
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by paultopia on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:44PM (#16526910)
YES YES what prefs changes were these? Please share!
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by blt on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:28AM (#16527643)
It is also happening to me. Big CPU usage spikes for no apparent reason. Sucks because I'm trying to reduce dependence on Google.
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by rukuu_001 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:37AM (#16528197)
Don't have exact URL, but google 'windowserver high CPU'. Fixing windowserver fixed FF too.
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Re:Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based tex... by paultopia on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:56AM (#16529571)
Interesting. Some kind of animation/repainting thing? This bug[1] seems to be along those lines.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

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