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I have definitely noticed my laptop fans spinning up whenever I do Youtube on Firefox on Windows. I just figured the GPU acceleration was broken, but this makes sense. Certainly not the first time Windows Defender has consumed extraordinary amounts of system resources for simple tasks.


I've noticed that AWS Console will spin up the fans on my MBP running Firefox, specifically on the EC2 screen. None of the other Console screens spin up the fans like that. Viewing about:performance always shows the AWS tab running full tilt to the point I've jokingly assumed they're trying to spin up an instance via WASM ;-)


The "new" EC2 console is the biggest pile of crap.


it amazes me how they can release that kind of thing. something the size of AWS, and this is what gets released to the public?


On Linux I fixed issues by setting media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled true in about:config.

From fan noise to none on youtube/twitch - chrome never made the fans spin.




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