Ask HN: Google lost his mind?
Today after long time without using google (mainly using duckduckgo) I was not sure if I was getting good results from duckduckgo so I went to google, my netbook (Atom 4 cores @1.66GHZ no gpu drivers Ubuntu 14.04 that's still usable most of the time) went frozen, I'm using chromium then I closed all tabs except a blank one (computer usable again) opened the devtools and chromium-task-manager then reloaded google again to see what was going on, the computer became again almost frozen, then I took notes shown bellow, navigate away from google to hackernews (computer usable again).
It seems that google is applying this: Do what I say, don't do what I do.
Far away was a time when google was fast and light, some billions dollars later it seems they forgot it's origins.
The notes:
Chromium: Version 64.0.3282.167 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit)
====CPU LOAD: 6%
Task Manager - chromlum
Task Memory footprint Memory CPU Network Process ID
Browser 83.112K 83.11 2K 8.0 0 24007
GPU Process 71.640K 71.640K 1.0 0 24152
Tab: New Tab 22.368K 22.368K 0.0 0 24173
Extension: uBlock 53.396K 53.396K 1.0 0 24213
Extension: The Great Suspender 20.480K 20.480K 0.0 0 24227
Extension: Privacy Badger 26.540K 26.540K 0.0 0 24240
==== Request: https://www.google.com
Redirects to: https://www.google.es
Task Manager - Chromlum
Task Memory footprint Memory CPU Network Process ID
Browser 84,996K 84,996K 14.8 0 24007
GPU Process 73,588K 73,588K 99.8 0 25528
Utility: Patch Service 9,376K 9,376K 0.0 0 25062
Tab: Developer Tools - https://www.goog 43,784K 43,784K 1.0 0 25173
Tab: Google 48,568K 48,568K 6.9 0 25218
Extension: uBlock 52,772K 52,772K 1.0 0 24213
Extension: The Great Suspender 20,596K 20,596K 0.0 0 24227
Extension: Privacy Badger 24,940K 24,940K 0.0 0 2 4240
====Request: https://news.ycombinator.com
CPU LOAD: 6%