I haven't gotten to that point yet, but what really gets me is the random high CPU usage that kills batter for things that other browsers can render with virtua

I haven't gotten to that point yet, but what really gets me is the random high CPU usage that kills batter for things that other browsers can render with virtually no CPU usage. The main offender that I've noticed is animated GIFs. Chrome seems to handle huge, complex DOMs and piles of JS just fine, but throw a few animated GIFs at it, and CPU usage rapidly spikes, fans spin up, if it's a laptop, it'll get noticeably hotter and the battery life remaining will drop fast. On OS X, Safari can render lots of animated GIFs like it's nothing. I have no idea how they let such an old and widely used piece of web tech get and stay so bad for so long. WTF Chrome?