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Agreed.... running Slack + Atom + Chrome is enough to kill a < 4GB modern laptop. I'm on emacs and firefox for good.

by kfrzcode 9y ago

paultopia 9y ago
Firefox has started sucking battery like crazy for me in the last few days, though. Can't figure out what it is.
- taneq 9y ago
  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.
- rukuu_001 9y ago
  Are you on a Mac? Had same, but fixed it with some prefs changes. Before that FF was stuck at 8-10% CPU.
  - paultopia 9y ago
    YES YES what prefs changes were these? Please share!
    - blt 9y ago
      It is also happening to me. Big CPU usage spikes for no apparent reason. Sucks because I'm trying to reduce dependence on Google.
    - rukuu_001 9y ago
      Don't have exact URL, but google 'windowserver high CPU'. Fixing windowserver fixed FF too.
      - paultopia 9y ago
        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 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
enraged_camel 9y ago
I haven't understood why people use the Slack app, as opposed to just running it in a browser tab. It uses up significantly less RAM, and has basically the same features.
- grzm 9y ago
  Tastes of course vary, but I find switching to a different app is easier than finding one of a number of windows or tabs within a browser.
  - TomMarius 9y ago
    Open Slack in Chrome, click browser main menu (the rightmost icon), hover on "More tools", click "Add to desktop". You get exactly the same benefits as you get with standalone Slack client but it still runs inside the browser.
    - bradstewart 9y ago
      How did I not know this was a thing. Thank you.
  - z3t4 9y ago
    Try a window manager, for example i3
bigger_cheese 9y ago
People used to joke that Emacs stood for "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping". I remember when my Dad paid a small fortune for a 386 with a 27mb hard disk which was considered insanely huge amount of disk space at the time.

Agreed.... running Slack + Atom + Chrome is enough to kill a < 4GB modern laptop. I'm on emacs and firefox for good.

paultopia 9y ago

Firefox has started sucking battery like crazy for me in the last few days, though. Can't figure out what it is.

taneq 9y ago
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.
rukuu_001 9y ago
Are you on a Mac? Had same, but fixed it with some prefs changes. Before that FF was stuck at 8-10% CPU.
- paultopia 9y ago
  YES YES what prefs changes were these? Please share!
  - blt 9y ago
    It is also happening to me. Big CPU usage spikes for no apparent reason. Sucks because I'm trying to reduce dependence on Google.
  - rukuu_001 9y ago
    Don't have exact URL, but google 'windowserver high CPU'. Fixing windowserver fixed FF too.
    - paultopia 9y ago
      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 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

enraged_camel 9y ago

I haven't understood why people use the Slack app, as opposed to just running it in a browser tab. It uses up significantly less RAM, and has basically the same features.

grzm 9y ago
Tastes of course vary, but I find switching to a different app is easier than finding one of a number of windows or tabs within a browser.
- TomMarius 9y ago
  Open Slack in Chrome, click browser main menu (the rightmost icon), hover on "More tools", click "Add to desktop". You get exactly the same benefits as you get with standalone Slack client but it still runs inside the browser.
  - bradstewart 9y ago
    How did I not know this was a thing. Thank you.
- z3t4 9y ago
  Try a window manager, for example i3

bigger_cheese 9y ago

People used to joke that Emacs stood for "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping". I remember when my Dad paid a small fortune for a 386 with a 27mb hard disk which was considered insanely huge amount of disk space at the time.