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		saagarjha on Oct 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux Assuming you are using a reasonable browser with a reasonable set of websites open, a browser should not really burn unbounded CPU in the background. Tabs that do are generally throttled, allowing the scheduler to burst their work and then have the processor go back to sleep.

tjoff on Oct 17, 2021 [–]

Are we assuming no tracking and ads as well?

But yeah I agree, it should not. But it does.

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