Why I’m done with Chrome

Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by uglycoyote on Sunday September 23, 2018 @05:34PM (#18053381)

I find that I cannot watch a YouTube video on my MacBook in Firefox for more than 10 seconds without the fans coming on at full throttle. This is one of the few reasons that I start up chrome, as strangely I can watch the same video in chrome without performance issues. I haven't had this issue on Firefox on PC

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by hrktb on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:50AM (#18055777)

Google properties are a lost battle.

Google Sheets and Google Docs have been horrible on anything than Chrome for a while as well, and I guess they have no incentive to make that situation change. Firefox is dealing with it better than before I think, but I won’t hold my breath for parity to ever come.

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by colanderman on Sunday September 23, 2018 @05:42PM (#18053409)

Disable "Automatic graphics switching" in "Energy Saver" in OS X settings. This fixed this problem for me (which started about 4 months ago).

(I'm on Yosemite.)

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by fernly on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:24AM (#18055017)

I'm on Yosemite and I don't see anything like that in the energy saver preference pane.

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by joethebro on Monday September 24, 2018 @01:19AM (#18055212)

That setting will only appear if you have a 15" with a dedicated GPU. 13" only have "Energy Saving" integrated graphics and don't need the setting

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Re:Why I’m done with Chrome by scns on Monday September 24, 2018 @05:46AM (#18056274)

Try the h264ify extension, it forces h264 video instead of webm, you can block 60fps videos too if you want to halve the size of the download.

If your cpu does not have a webm decoder in hardware, it has to decode them in software which is inefficient.

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