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>>mconle+(OP)
> a ~75% CPU usage reduction was noted when browsing YouTube in Firefox

I wonder how many of the people who say "Firefox is significantly slower than chrome" are using windows... On my computer, Firefox IS slower than chrome but (with ad blockers enabled) by an insignificant amount. By still being "the last remaining mostly independent, maintained and reasonably popular browser" I'd prefer it to use over chrome even if it is a bit slower.

Of course, ms is no longer the "old micro$oft" but their history on how they handle competitor browsers makes one think how much interest they could have in investigating and fixing such a bug.

My takeaway is: prefer independent software as much as you can.

>>marcod+b7
I have definitely noticed my laptop fans spinning up whenever I do Youtube on Firefox on Windows. I just figured the GPU acceleration was broken, but this makes sense. Certainly not the first time Windows Defender has consumed extraordinary amounts of system resources for simple tasks.

>>jandre+ha
I've noticed that AWS Console will spin up the fans on my MBP running Firefox, specifically on the EC2 screen. None of the other Console screens spin up the fans like that. Viewing about:performance always shows the AWS tab running full tilt to the point I've jokingly assumed they're trying to spin up an instance via WASM ;-)

>>dylan6+fe
The "new" EC2 console is the biggest pile of crap.

>>olyjoh+Mr
it amazes me how they can release that kind of thing. something the size of AWS, and this is what gets released to the public?