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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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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.