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I moved away due to the battery drain issues on OSX, has that been addressed?

Based on this bug and some of the related ones, the answer seems to be no.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

Until then I'm stuck with Opera/Safari/Chrome, mostly in that order.

Try viewing Imgur.com on Safari. Just scroll a bit until you get a couple gifs displayed and check the CPU usage on the imgur.com tab. Just insane that a few gifs destroy an i7. Is it bad video compression? I notice imgur attempts to make gifs from mp4 files and vice versa but damn. A 5 year old iPhone has no problem with this task.

It'd be nice if you could throttle processor usage. I'd rather have a choppy experience on the occasionally website than constant fans and having my Mac turn into a heater.

http://www.willnolan.com/cputhrottle/cputhrottle.html

That’s awesome. Thanks for the link

I do not know about macos, but in Linux you could achieve this by running your process in a cgroup.

It was unusable for me too, afaik it had to do with scaling more than anything else, so if you toy around with scaling factors it might help.

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