In no case do not think that I’m forcing holivar - I’m more than loyal to MS products - some of their solutions cause me sincere joy, and using them is a satisfaction (for example, OneNote in conjunction with the rest of 2007 office). IMHO capabilities and usability are not yet equal). And I use Adobe with Google too.
Recently discovered Chrome. Very nice and fast browser. But since This is still a novelty, I keep a close eye on it. And now, having opened 5-6 pages of the habr, I see a load on the percent (Core 2 Duo) at 50%, and 45 refers to Chrome.
Began to find out.
It turned out that the browser itself consumes 2%, the rest is “Shockwave Flash Plugin”. It seemed to me very, very strange, because in order for the flash to eat so much, it needs to be very lightly loaded - to launch some kind of hard pseudo-3D animation in full-screen mode. But on Habré there is nothing so evil. The conclusion suggests itself - Chrome is crooked working with a flash. But other pages, even very filthy with banners, did not give such a load, except for face-to-face flash games.
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A scoundrel was identified using a statistical refresh method - it turned out to be a banner from Microsoft about a pirate with the slogan “Sail faster. The team will catch up "and a call to take with you Microsoft tools with which you can win in any fight.
Surprisingly, each copy of this banner creates a load on the percent of about 10-12%. What does this banner do? Can it be parallel computing? It is also strange that the Habr administration does not check the load on the CPU banners before publishing them.
Chrome turned out to be nothing. At first sight. But in fact, he also has one very important shoal - even with an inactive tab, the flash produces full-fledged rendering and calculations, which is very, very strange - have they forgotten about googled banner designers in Google (even IE understands this)