On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:54:37PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 08/04/15 15:38, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:32:47AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> For the fun of it I fired up FF and opened up 50 tabs. I purposely picked > >> sites which have lots of adverts which get updated. 10 of those tabs were > >> of a weather site which updates the data very frequently. > > Btw, FF nightly now has a tracking protection feature that does the "no > > tracking" job of many of the privacy add-ons like Privacy Badger, > > Ghostery, Disconnect Me, etc. They even have a menu option, both are > > still hidden inside about:config though. > > Not sure what relevance that has to CPU usage.
As I understood the topic was unusual CPU loads. Since you mentioned adverts (considering they are often responsible for strange CPU loads), I thought I mention a feature FF will have in the future. Tests by devs suggest the feature improves on CPU load and page load times significantly. > > > >> The only "issue" I saw is that playing a video from youtube is choppy even > >> though you can see from the progress bar that the video itself has been > >> totally downloaded. I suspect this is due to the single process threaded > >> nature of the FF implementation. > > Again, FF now has something called electrolysis (e10s), which makes it > > multi-threaded. Not sure which versions of FF has the feature. I find > > it is quite effective, but maybe a bit buggy. > > > > Well, since Fedora doesn't distribute "nightly" and that e10s option doesn't > exist on the fedora released version I don't know what relevance it has to > the discussion. Again, I thought this was relevant for a discussion of CPU loads, specially after you pointed out the single-threaded nature of FF. I just didn't know if the Fedora supplied version already has it. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
