I was exploring podcats earlier today and noticed these two were chewing up most of the CPU on my laptop but they seem relatively static:
https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-top-50-podcasts-in-the-u-s-for-q2-2024/
https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/episodes/
Just going to the 2nd website drives 1 of my CPU to >80% and drives WindowServer another >30% even before I start streaming/playing.
I also noticed they don't do this in Safari but even if they did I don't see what they are doing that requires much CPU at all (active video streaming usually uses less CPU).
I would expect them to use <2% CPU. Playing one of the podcast episodes in Safari uses <2% CPU on my relatively slow Intel i3 system while Orion + WindowServer is >100% just having that web page open.
I think there are two issues here:
- What are those websites doing that is driving Orion to consume over 1 CPU in total?
- Even if those web pages are doing something stupid, can Orion handle them as efficiently as Safari?
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