…OMG. I’ve been noticing that browsing my Tumblr dash in Firefox uses up around 1/3 of my CPU cycles, even with ad scripts blocked, but couldn’t figure out why.
After reading some developer tools documentation online, I managed to pinpoint that it was something involving CSS animations, but couldn’t find any obvious element that was animating on the page. So then I did a bit more debugging to see what animations were being reported by the document inspector.
It’s the mouseover animation on the Tumblr logo. Which, apparently, is coded in such a way that it keeps animating in the background even when the mouse is nowhere near it (!?!?!?!).
this site is so damn badly designed, what the heck.
Yikes
@codeman38 question: Have you found a good way to solve the problem?
I have had all kinds of issues with tumblr eating resources, and recently had to resort to one of those add blocking extensions (which I am generally against on principle, but if your ads are so terrible i can’t use your site with them on…)
Anyway, I had major performance improvement, but I too still have problems with tumblr eating resources and this… makes some sense to me.
See this post with a code snippet that can be used with the Stylish extension. This is what I’m currently using, and it definitely reduces the CPU usage for me.
Tags:
#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #oh so *that’s* what that was #I’d kind of been vaguely assuming it was some sort of nonconsensual distributed computing #I suppose I should have not attributed to malice what could adequately be attributed to stupidity #I don’t think I can be bothered trying to fix it #when it started I just stopped leaving my dashboard tab open when I wasn’t actively using it #and that’s been good enough for me #but you might find the Stylish thing worth a try
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