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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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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.

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

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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.