Comment by DustinBrett
6 months ago
That is odd, perhaps the browser is not using your GPU and instead trying to run fully on the CPU. I have an issue on GitHub where another user reported this in Firefox. I assume changing to a picture wallpaper like APOD fixes the issue then?
Yes, with static image CPU consumption goes to ~0%. chrome://gpu says:
Graphics Feature Status
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* Canvas: Hardware accelerated
* Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
* Compositing: Hardware accelerated
* Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
* OpenGL: Enabled
* Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages
* Raw Draw: Disabled
* Skia Graphite: Disabled
* Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
* Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
* Vulkan: Disabled
* WebGL: Hardware accelerated
* WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
* WebGPU: Disabled
* WebNN: Disabled