I had that problem but turning off javascript (as someone else said), turning off images most of the time, and bookmarking the tab group then closing as many tabs as I wasn't actually going to use soonest (especially any viewing PDF files), dropped it down to ~4%.
On 05-27 12:07:16+0200, Maximilian Pichler wrote: > Is it possible to limit the CPU usage of a given process to, say, 20%? > > I'd like to slow down the web browser since it is draining my laptop's > battery. With enough tabs open it's often consuming ~50% of CPU but > not doing anything productive. Apparently with RLIMIT_CPU in > setrlimit(2) the total CPU time of a process can be limited. Can a > similar limit be set for the percentage? > > Thanks >
