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I've noticed if I have this website open my computer's fan starts running more. I looked at Task Manager and opening Poal in a Firefox tab makes the CPU usage jump from 3-4% to 18-23%, and my GPU jumps up from 0-1% to 18-21%. This is just from opening the front page, not loading vidoes or doing anything else. For context, I'm using a decent laptop from 2019 with a dedicated graphics card, 16GB RAM, 4-core i7 CPU, etc. What the hell kind of scripts are running on Poal that it's using so much computing power? Is this happening to anyone else's computer?

EDIT: I tried turning the snow off, and that made some difference but it's still using too much power. CPU goes up by about 14% and GPU goes up by about 7% from opening this website and it doesn't drop until I close the tab. What is the GPU working on with an unchanging webpage?

EDIT 2: I tried this with another browser (Chrome). Same thing happens-- the CPU and GPU jump up and don't drop for as long as the tab is open.

I've noticed if I have this website open my computer's fan starts running more. I looked at Task Manager and opening Poal in a Firefox tab makes the CPU usage jump from 3-4% to 18-23%, and my GPU jumps up from 0-1% to 18-21%. This is just from opening the front page, not loading vidoes or doing anything else. For context, I'm using a decent laptop from 2019 with a dedicated graphics card, 16GB RAM, 4-core i7 CPU, etc. What the hell kind of scripts are running on Poal that it's using so much computing power? Is this happening to anyone else's computer? EDIT: I tried turning the snow off, and that made some difference but it's still using too much power. CPU goes up by about 14% and GPU goes up by about 7% from opening this website and it doesn't drop until I close the tab. What is the GPU working on with an unchanging webpage? EDIT 2: I tried this with another browser (Chrome). Same thing happens-- the CPU and GPU jump up and don't drop for as long as the tab is open.

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[–] • 7 pts (edited )

I'm not able to replicate this.

I'm running:

OS: Manjaro 20.2 Nibia

Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.10.2-2-MANJARO

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core @ 16x 3.6GHz

GPU: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

RAM: 16019MiB

[–] • 5 pts

Me neither.

I running:

From the cops

OS: Mandigo 420 Nigia

Kernel: Corn

CPU: AMD 29000

GPU: Using the power of my own imagination

RAM: He really be more of an iberian goat than a ram

[–] • 5 pts

Okay, you get one upvote for the use of AMD in your imaginary setup.

[–] • 6 pts

Because it is watching you, and monitoring all your activity

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

I thought that was you watching us, though. Does peering through vents require scripts?

[–] • 2 pts

You know people can watch you through a computer, while another, unrelated person, could be watching you through your vents?

[–] • 2 pts

I have a voyeur fetish where I get off using a computer to watch someone watching someone else through a vent.

[–] • 1 pt

This is the correct response. And "it" is Mossad.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

yeah but that never takes up as much resources

[–] • 1 pt

And running Bitcoin mining scripts in the background. Thanks for the free shekels, goy!

[–] • 5 pts

probably the stupid snowflakes

[–] • 5 pts

I've tried that in Firefox and Chrome, and don't get much other than a blip on the task manager.

Are you running some sort of packet-scanning antivirus software? Sites like Poal are unloved by left-leaning tech companies, and they sometimes get overly aggressive with scanning them.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Interesting observation.

[–] • 2 pts

I've heard of antivirus programs going nuts on certain websites that might be subversive (according to the vendor's preference, of course.)

[–] • 0 pt

I'm only running the standard Windows antivirus that comes with Windows 10.

[–] • 1 pt

Windows is a flaky beast, and every install I do seems a bit different - even on the same kinds of machine.

You could have something else that's conflicting with it, or something broken in Windows itself. To be fair, I only have an old version of FF on my machine, so there could be an extension or other fuckup in the open-source embarrassment that FF has become.

[–] • 3 pts

>I've noticed if I have this website open my computer's fan starts running more.

The snow

Did you deactivate it?

[–] • 1 pt

Just tried that-- it made some difference, mainly on the GPU. Now CPU is at 17-19% and GPU is at 7%. Still higher usage levels than if I open up Reddit or Voat (back when it was around).

[–] • 0 pt

Try opening the debug panel (f12) and reload the page and look in the console tab if there isn't an error that keeps getting thrown over and over again

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Because Firefox is terrible, I have it on a desktop I hardly use and it uses cpu and has a memory leak that they haven’t been able to fix in years. sometimes the cpu is hardly doing anything and if I leave it on and forget to close Firefox within a day the cpu fan is going full speed and the screen is frozen and the memory is being fully used.

Once they fired the new ceo back in 2013 or 2014 because he donated years before to stop gay marriage and let the crazy leftist run the show, diversity hires and the crazies Firefox went to shit.

[–] • 0 pt

What browser would you recommend? I've been using Firefox mainly because it has all the add-ons I want: adblocker, Ghostery, etc.

[–] • 0 pt

I basically use mobile, Firefox when I need a desktop browser. my girlfriend uses chrome on a daily basis and it has all those same plugins.

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Always be mining:)

[–] • 1 pt

Maroonsaint put malware on your computer that constantly scans your PC for new dick pics.

[–] • 0 pt

Well, he can keep trying but he won't find any here! Did he make the migration over to Poal?

[–] • 1 pt

Try turning off snow maybe

[–] • 1 pt

Have any idea how to shut that (Snow) thing off. I don’t see it?

[–] • 0 pt

Top right - click your username - click the gear (settings) - "disable snow"

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I dunno about your system, but mine is an old laptop, and it starts to melt whenever there's anything animated in the browser, because web browsers are really cool and awesome and engineered by amazing geniuses.

So there was the snow effect, but you can disable that. I can't disable the manger image in the top left, so the browser is eating an entire core just for that. If not for that (and animated gifs in the sidebar in /anything, etc) this wouldn't be a problem.

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