40% CPU

[Frank Lion]

SeaMonkey may indeed use less than half the RAM that Firefox does, but I noticed that every so often SM hit 40% cpu for no obvious reason.

Eventually I found a site where that happened, closed all others and toggled off JS and then Ctl + F5. No changes. However, the reason is this - image.animation_mode Set it to 'once' and it stops and, although I hadn't noticed before, that was a .gif heavy site.

[therube]

Here too: Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security -> Images => Animated images should loop...

Yeah, sometimes its surprising how much impact a "little thing" can have on the browser.
"Small" Flash ads, a scrolling banner, ... may have a high impact on the browser.


> SeaMonkey may indeed use less than half the RAM that Firefox does

(Can't say I've seen anything like that, just about equal in most respects, I've found, but I'll leave it at that.)

[patrickjdempsey]

The GIF memory bug is pretty old... I believe there was an attempt to fix it back around Firefox 4.0 development because it was wanted for some of the tab animation bling, but I'm not sure if work on it was just unsuccessful or got scrapped with the rest of the unfinished features.

[-Px-]

That was https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595671, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666446 and still is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666449
Also may be in dependencies here - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683284 or here - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683284

[Frank Lion]

SeaMonkey may indeed use less than half the RAM that Firefox does

(Can't say I've seen anything like that, just about equal in most respects, I've found, but I'll leave it at that.)

That was just something I've consistently noticed when I've been in the Task Manager for other things. Still, a very good thing.

The GIF memory bug is pretty old... I believe there was an attempt to fix it back around Firefox 4.0 development....

It must be sort of fixed on Firefox or I'd have noticed CPU rises like that.

Until SM fix it, I'd suggest they set animations to 'once' by default. Out of 100 people coming to use SM, then 99 of them are going to notice that CPU jump, whereas as only 5 would notice that some silly smilie gif only animated once.

Easy 'temp' fix, especially (and bizarrely) there is also a Prefs Window options for 'always'.

[therube]

Oh, don't forget, we can still stop animated gif's with the ESC key.
(FF users now need an extension to accomplish the same.)

[patrickjdempsey]

I donno, I find GIF's annoying and especially now that all the youngsters think it's clever and make blog posts consisting of nothing but GIFs... with that fad even leaking into News sites. I was also having problems with Firefox freezing up one some of those sites, so I have them set to animate once.