High CPU Load Caused by Google’s Buckyball

September 4th, 2010 admin Posted in google Comments Off on High CPU Load Caused by Google’s Buckyball

You have to be careful when placing javascript objects in a webpage. Latest Google doodle buckyball has a major impact on CPU load when you try to spin it. Bellow is a screenshot showing average load on one of the core of my i7 CPU. It uses more than half core power to animate.

cpu load i7

i7 cpu load

After a while firefox RAM usage skyrocketed to more than 1,5Gb all thanks to this buckyball. I wonder how badly older computers that don’t have powerful processors will be slowed down. Not so long ago another Google’s doodle with pacman game also caused a lot of trouble for people who just wanted to use plain search and nothing more.

It would be nice from Google to have the option of opting out from such doodles in the future.


Download New Google Talk Labs Edition

February 11th, 2009 admin Posted in google, software Comments Off on Download New Google Talk Labs Edition

Google has improved its chatting program GoogleTalk. In this new version you can hide from your contacts like in MSN Messenger or Skype.

Google Talk

Google Talk

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