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Your point is correct and there is another changing thing beyond the clock that's common - the blinking caret in a textbox. Firefox used to have really bad batt
by Strom 4y ago
Your point is correct and there is another changing thing beyond the clock that's common - the blinking caret in a textbox. Firefox used to have really bad battery usage on macOS for a long time because in order to only change the caret you have to do a lot of things the Apple way.
- kaba0 4y agoOh didn’t think of that! When you are more in control of the hardware then hardware planes could help with that - at least cursors in display managers are handled that way. Does native OS frameworks have some escape hatch for these slightly changing, constantly damaging elements?