[ale] OT Google's cute animation drives tablet cpu hard

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

>On 6/21/2013 11:15, Alex Carver wrote:
>> On 6/21/2013 10:49, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>
>>> Just running an Acer A500 Android tablet with Dolphin web browser.
>>> According to a quick search on the web, the tablet has a dual core,
>1000
>>> MHz, ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and 1 GB ram.  They just upgraded the Dolphin
>>> software, and it seems slower than before at loading pages.  I
>cannot
>>> say how the old Dolphin would react to this gif file since I've
>never
>>> had a chance to test that.
>>>
>>> This animated gif doesn't seem to bother my Firefox on my pc at all.
> Of
>>> course, my smallest pc that I normally use has a dual core 2 Ghz (I
>>> think) pentium cpu and 8 GB of ram.
>>
>> So open Google's page on Chrome or Firefox on the tablet and see how
>> their rendering engines do.  If the CPU still pegs then there's a
>> fundamental problem.  If the CPU behaves normally then Dolphin has a
>> rendering problem.
>
>For reference, I've got Firefox on a Samsung S4 with the Google search 
>page open.  The graphic is animated and CPU usage is less than five 
>percent (this is as monitored by the OS Monitor app).
>

If you switch from Firefox to OS Monitor, doesn't the Firefox page get suspended?

Sincerely,

Ron



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