Bug 1463390 - Gnome Web uses an insane amount of power, melts my laptop on sites like Facebook and Youtube.
Summary: Gnome Web uses an insane amount of power, melts my laptop on sites like Faceb...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: webkitgtk4
Version: 26
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Mac OS
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Popela
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-20 18:20 UTC by Ryan Farmer
Modified: 2017-06-23 13:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-06-21 00:43:13 UTC
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Description Ryan Farmer 2017-06-20 18:20:07 UTC 
Description of problem:

Gnome Web uses an insane amount of power, melts my laptop on sites like Facebook and Youtube.

Firefox will be sitting at 8-9 watts and Gnome Web hits ~20+ and makes my laptop blazing hot and fans running at 100%. Also, with Gnome Web plugging away, CPU usage shoots way up and it brings the computer screeching to a halt, barely unable to render the Gnome Shell.

Although the Midori browser also uses WebkitGTK, I don't have these problems with that browser. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.24.2


How reproducible:

Open Gnome Web and do stuff on Facebook (especially try to make a new post) and/or watch Youtube videos.

Actual results:

Computer grinds to a near halt. Using power. Using power. Using power.


Expected results:

Gnome Web is fast and doesn't melt the laptop.

Additional:

I do have intel-va support installed from RPM Fusion.
Comment 1 Ryan Farmer 2017-06-21 00:43:13 UTC 
Okay, this isn't a bug. I installed gstreamer1-vaapi and the rendering is smooth and doesn't burn up the laptop now.:/
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2017-06-23 13:55:21 UTC 
I think it is a bug. That shouldn't happen, especially if gstreamer1-vaapi is not installed by default. Feel free to report it upstream on https://bugs.webkit.org. Prefix the bug title with [GStreamer], select the Media Elements component, and CC bugs-noreply.
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