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

[Alex Carver]

On 6/21/2013 13:04, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
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> Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
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>> On 6/21/2013 11:15, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> On 6/21/2013 10:49, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
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>>>> 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).
>>
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> If you switch from Firefox to OS Monitor, doesn't the Firefox page get suspended?
>
> Sincerely,

No, I bring Firefox to the foreground while OS Monitor runs in the 
notification bar at the top.