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by guessmyname 3645 days ago
Jesus! I had to force-kill my browser after a tab (didn't know which one at first) started eating all my 6GB of RAM, then realized it was this one when I restored the session. I almost reboot my computer entirely if it wasn't because I was doing something important in the Terminal. One would assume that posting a link in this website would be after some testing of the link in itself. I guess I will need to be extra careful when clicking shared links, specially if they have JS in the URL.

    Linux 3.16 (amd64)
    Google Chrome 52.0.2743.41 beta
    Four other tabs open, five with this "anime-js.com"
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ghostly_s 3645 days ago
No need to be dramatic. The site nor the Codepens have any unduly high impact on my work machine, an underpowered Windows 7 machine with Chrome Version 51.0.2704.103 m (64-bit). Just because you encountered a bug in your setup doesn't necessarily imply the author has exhibited reckless abandon in testing this project.
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TeMPOraL 3645 days ago
Maybe the low resource usage on your work machines is actually a bug in your setup?

Honestly though, GP's setup looks pretty ordinary. It's probably a Chrome implementation bug, and the library author didn't put enough hacks into his product to work around the brokenness of the browser platforms.

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jerf 3645 days ago
"Crashing your browser and/or computer" is definitely a recurring hazard with Show HN. But that's just the way it is.

(With no offense intended towards JulianGarnier. I am assuming the additional risk and I am comfortable as long as it is not a deliberate hack attack.)

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amenod 3645 days ago
To be fair, this is not (just) OP's fault. Under no circumstances should just visiting a page render your computer unusable, your browser should protect you from that. I know that none of them do, but sooner or later browser vendors will have to realize that they have become the new OS and act accordingly (that is, allow user to easily control misbehaving pages - see their resource consumption, limit them, kill them...). Never should your computer become unresponsive just because some page wanted more CPU time / memory / ...
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