On: Inside look at modern web browser – part 4

[lwansbrough]

Unfortunately for Firefox this concept doesn’t work very well on the CPU it seems. Every time I open Firefox on my (slightly older but still very capable) MBP the fans go nuts and the CPU could fry an egg. Probably has something to do with my integrated graphics chip.

And yeah I’m going to keep posting this anecdote until Mozilla acknowledges the problem.

[mccr8 → lwansbrough]

Do you have scaled resolution enabled? If so, that sounds like this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

I think there's been a little bit of progress on that issue, but not much, unfortunately.

[pcwalton → mccr8]

Sounds like Core Animation could fix that issue? I have a patch for that almost ready to go (mstange is testing it as we speak).

[minitech → lwansbrough]

> WebRender is already turned on by default for many users in Firefox Nightly…

Are you using Nightly?