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watching videos on YouTube consumes a lot of GPU

max_kurz
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I don't know if this is normal in Firefox but when watching a video on YouTube the GPU usage of the window manager process goes from 0% to using 1/4 to a half of the available resources of the GPU(using Windows 10), this affects me a lot because I use a laptop and the battery discharges faster than normal, while in other browsers it has a more moderate use of the GPU watching the same video at the same resolution

I don't know if this is normal in Firefox but when watching a video on YouTube the GPU usage of the window manager process goes from 0% to using 1/4 to a half of the available resources of the GPU(using Windows 10), this affects me a lot because I use a laptop and the battery discharges faster than normal, while in other browsers it has a more moderate use of the GPU watching the same video at the same resolution
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GerardoPcp04
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Hola, Todo lo que es video usará la GPU en lugar del CPU, un uso de 25% al 50% (que serán picos no constante) dependerá de la placa de video que tengas y de la resolución o calidad del video que esta mirando, 25% me parece algo normal. Puedes probar como se comporta creando un perfil nuevo de Firefox y sin hacer cambios de configuración o ni agregar complementos: http://mzl.la/1BAQGnB Saludos