Public bug reported: This started to happen with Ubuntu 19.10.
When an animated gif is displayed in a browser, gnome-shell begins using 100% CPU on all cores. To reproduce: 1) open Firefox, or Chromium 2) load an URL where an animated gif is displayed - you can also use this direct link to https://i.stack.imgur.com/h6viz.gif 3) gnome-shell will start using 100% CPU on all cores (as long as Firefox/Chromium window is in the foreground) ** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850874 Title: gnome-shell 100% CPU usage on all cores when animated gif is displayed Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This started to happen with Ubuntu 19.10. When an animated gif is displayed in a browser, gnome-shell begins using 100% CPU on all cores. To reproduce: 1) open Firefox, or Chromium 2) load an URL where an animated gif is displayed - you can also use this direct link to https://i.stack.imgur.com/h6viz.gif 3) gnome-shell will start using 100% CPU on all cores (as long as Firefox/Chromium window is in the foreground) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1850874/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

