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Firefox has started sucking battery like crazy for me in the last few days, though. Can't figure out what it is.
by 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 agoI 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 agoAre you on a Mac? Had same, but fixed it with some prefs changes. Before that FF was stuck at 8-10% CPU.
- paultopia 9y agoYES YES what prefs changes were these? Please share!
- blt 9y agoIt 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 agoDon't have exact URL, but google 'windowserver high CPU'. Fixing windowserver fixed FF too.
- paultopia 9y agoInteresting. 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