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by mickelsen 596 days ago
Did you try facebook with a few tabs open? It absolutely thrashes your CPU and Memory with some background worker. Even with an ad/tracker blocker, CPU usage remains high, if not higher because some request failures trigger something in that massive script.

And with some news and minimalistic blog sites, one would be led to think the clean design points to a lack of bloat, but nope.
1 comments
ericra 596 days ago
That's interesting. I don't have a Facebook account anymore to check, but I'm guessing you only see this when logged in, correct? I get very little CPU usage on their main/login page when logged out.

I don't doubt that Facebook is a hellscape when actually in the web app, though.

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