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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Today's Google doodle “Garden Gnomes” using 50% CPU when displayed?

Ask HN: Today's Google doodle “Garden Gnomes” using 50% CPU when displayed?
3 by gregoriol | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Today's (10/06/2018) Google homepage doodle called "Celebrating Garden Gnomes" (https://ift.tt/2HCRvEP) seems to be using about 50 to 70% CPU just when displayed on the homepage. I mean not clicked, not activated, just displaying the homepage. I experience the same behavior on latest Chrome, Firefox and Safari on macOS. When the tab is not active (or closed), the CPU goes back to normal. Does anyone else experience this? 50% percent CPU is extremely huge for a webpage, plus considering that it's a page we all use a lot, and by all I mean millions of people, plus considering that we didn't do anything to start it (I would be ok if the game/animation itself, when clicked, uses some resources, but this is just standby mode here). How can we stop this craziness? Isn't anyone at Google thinking about the impact?

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