the browser dosent use nearly enough cpu and gpu!

[rowan_time]

win 7:
new?:
64:
ublock orgin:

this is gonna throw ya all for a loop, and is an issue i have never seen before
the browser slugs to open pages, but runs them amazingly well onece their open.
thats fine, but what issent, is the reason it's slugging

this thing, this amazing browser, refuses to use more than 30% of my cpu, and is barley using my gpu
for a lot of users, that would be fabulus! a ultamate lightweight browser!
but heres the thing

it laggs when it hits 30% as if it used 100
ny fan dosent turn on so oviously it's just not wanting to go over thirty
onece again, great for most older computers, but for the first time, i got an amazing beast here!
8gb ram core i7 nvidea gpu and it just wont eat up my resources!

CONSUME!!!

chrome was using 100% and i know that it's kindda silly to complain about low cpu usage, but i dont want lagging pages, and slow loads because of the 30% cap
AARG!

[Moonchild]

i know that it's kindda silly to complain about low cpu usage

You know, it kinda is

but i dont want lagging pages, and slow loads because of the 30% cap

Lagging pages and slow loads are primarily because of web design. What Chrome does is just mask the fact that it suffers from the same issue by spinning up separate copies of itself for each tab under the hood. In your case, if you open 3 tabs in 3 processes, your CPU will be scheduled to distribute the load over those multiple copies and yes that will eat 100% of your i7. That doesn't mean Chromium is doing it any better per process than Pale Moon or that it actually "uses all of your CPU" to load a page. It most likely isn't.

This is greatly simplified of an explanation but I hope you get the gist of it.

[andyprough]

Lagging pages and slow loads are primarily because of web design. What Chrome does is just mask the fact that it suffers from the same issue by spinning up separate copies of itself for each tab under the hood. In your case, if you open 3 tabs in 3 processes, your CPU will be scheduled to distribute the load over those multiple copies and yes that will eat 100% of your i7. That doesn't mean Chromium is doing it any better per process than Pale Moon or that it actually "uses all of your CPU" to load a page. It most likely isn't.

Isn't Chrome also pre-fetching a huge number of links that you'll never bother to visit, greatly increasing your bandwidth usage? I thought that was one of the ways that Chrome tries to look like it's working faster.

[suzyne]

Isn't Chrome also pre-fetching a huge number of links that you'll never bother to visit, greatly increasing your bandwidth usage? I thought that was one of the ways that Chrome tries to look like it's working faster.

True. But importantly, it is a setting that you can turn off if you don't want it.

[moonbat]

But importantly, it is a setting that you can turn off if you don't want it.

Notice how the only options are 'preload' and 'preload faster', never 'turn the damn thing off'

[van p]

Notice how the only options are 'preload' and 'preload faster', never 'turn the damn thing off'

Isn't the 'feature' turned off when you click on the toggle button (or whatever it's called)?

[moonbat]

Isn't the 'feature' turned off when you click on the toggle button (or whatever it's called)?

No idea, but logic would dictate that if you're providing configuration options, then they should cover all available choices. Makes no sense if you have to turn it off only from a different place than where you configure it.

[Moonchild]

logic would dictate that if you're providing configuration options, then they should cover all available choices

Looks like they do. At the top is the on/off toggle for the entire feature, and when ON, you get to select below in what way it should be on.

[suzyne]

Isn't the 'feature' turned off when you click on the toggle button (or whatever it's called)?

Yes, when the toggle is off there is no preload.

[van p]

I'm agreein' with Moonchild and suzyne.

[xtal256]

Back on topic, is it possible that the CPU never goes above 30% because Pale Moon only uses a certain number of threads when loading pages?

I agree that it should use the maximum available processing power (this Raymond Chen article comes to mind), but this would be at the core of how the browser is designed (which goes back to when it was forked from Firefox) and is unlikely to change.

[Theresnothinghere]

Wouldn't opening multiple browser windows instead of tabs in Pale Moon accomplish the same thing?

[Moonchild]

Wouldn't opening multiple browser windows instead of tabs in Pale Moon accomplish the same thing?

No, Multiple windows are still a single program instance. Maybe it's less common these days in our days of "apps" and "it's actually a chrome browser with a webpage" programs, but applications can open plenty of individual windows if they want.