What's infuriating to me (except that I've mellowed about it over the years) is that web pages use as much cpu and memory as they can get away with, up to the e

What's infuriating to me (except that I've mellowed about it over the years) is that web pages use as much cpu and memory as they can get away with, up to the edge of un-usability. Pre-mature optimization being evil and all that. FWIW here's a huge page with colored text and links (real html stuff), and it's quite snappy in firefox: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/diff/?id=v4.7.8&id2=v4.7&context=3&ignorews=0&dt=0 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...