• Removing APNG support from Firefox?
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Hey guys, is there anyway to disable APNG's with Firefox? The only place that I've ever been to that uses them would be Facepunch. I'd just like to know if there is a way to disable support for them so that the Facepunch home page doesn't send my CPU rocketing up in degrees. Idle, my CPU runs at 38-ish. On the Facepunch homepage it hits 70c and the fan goes to full speed.
Without recompiling from source, I don't think there's any way to do this (iirc APNG processing is handled in the decoder so that's going to be easier said than done). Either deal with it, or use another browser. It surprises me that your CPU's getting that toasty. Could you post some system specs?
Something is obviously more going on here. my cpu doesn't rise anything above 10% when on facepunch. Do you have any addons or anything installed?
Try installing ABP, Noscript and FlashBlock. Those three in combination stop most CPU and GPU intensive crap from running unless you allow it. A couple of APNGs running on a page isn't going to use exorbitant amounts of CPU time.
Weird, mine ramps up my GPU usage.
[QUOTE=bohb;34628131]Try installing ABP, Noscript and FlashBlock. Those three in combination stop most CPU and GPU intensive crap from running unless you allow it. A couple of APNGs running on a page isn't going to use exorbitant amounts of CPU time.[/QUOTE] Have both ABP and NoScript. I don't really see the point in using Flashblock with Noscript. [t]http://puu.sh/gpOc[/t] I was monitoring the CPU usage of Firefox in the task manager, and it seems to hover around 40. Also, sometimes those Plugincontainer exe's start rapidly opening when I close Firefox, then in like, 10 seconds they'll all go away and I'll be able to restart the browser.
APNGs aren't supported in Chrome (though there is an addon for it but it's a tad unstable) and it has Adblock Plus. Have you tried Chrome? I'm not asking you to completely ditch Firefox for Chrome, but I wish to see if it makes a difference in any of your problems to try a different browser. Because in my years of using Firefox, NEVER has it ate 40% of my CPU, even back when I had an extremely shitty Gateway laptop and so many plugins and addons it took 30 seconds to start. Also, if possible, open up your computer and clean out any dust, see if that has an effect.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;34637099]Also, sometimes those Plugincontainer exe's start rapidly opening when I close Firefox, then in like, 10 seconds they'll all go away and I'll be able to restart the browser.[/QUOTE] Plugin container is flash related (dunno if it's used for anything else) so you might try reinstalling flash and see if that helps at all.
apng is most likely built into some rendering code and will not cause the computer to shit itself so it is something else. if your computer is shitting itself on text and light image pages with non active flash objects, then you need to get off windows 95
Glad this looks like Win95 for you: [img]http://puu.sh/gIBB[/img] [editline]12th February 2012[/editline] Wait, I just noticed it says that I was using IE in my main post. What the hell? I have it disabled.
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