New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by mikecane » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 6:22 PM UTC

New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison
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Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

#2

Post by bergie » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 6:59 PM UTC

In other news, you'll be way more productive if you don't hang out on Twitter all day :-)

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by watmough » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:03 PM UTC

Agreed, the new twitter is way demanding compared to the older version.

Once they stop allowing the old version, I'll probably have twitter loaded much less. On a core 2 duo, even scrolling in new twitter is way below par.

Is there a low cpu-usage client? I tried one of the flash based ones, but it brought the fans permanently on on my MacBook... Yeah, that's not going to fly.

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by CrazedGeek » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:18 PM UTC

watmough wrote: post #3

Agreed, the new twitter is way demanding compared to the older version. Once they stop allowing the old version, I'll probably have twitter loaded much less. On a core 2 duo, even scrolling in new twitter is way below par. Is there a low cpu-usage client? I tried one of the flash based ones, but it brought the fans permanently on on my MacBook... Yeah, that's not going to fly.

http://mobile.twitter.com ?

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by kylec » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:22 PM UTC

watmough wrote: post #3

Agreed, the new twitter is way demanding compared to the older version. Once they stop allowing the old version, I'll probably have twitter loaded much less. On a core 2 duo, even scrolling in new twitter is way below par. Is there a low cpu-usage client? I tried one of the flash based ones, but it brought the fans permanently on on my MacBook... Yeah, that's not going to fly.

I'm using the new Twitter client from the Mac App Store - it's quite good:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id409789998?mt=12

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by NathanKP » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:22 PM UTC

I didn't notice the excessive CPU usage until very recently, meaning that it may be a recent patch or change causing this problem. Safari still operates quite well as long as I don't have the Twitter tab open, and even then I don't notice a slow down until a try to scroll the page.

That said, because of the problems with the web version I have switched to the new standalone Twitter application for Mac OS X. I think this is better as well as it allows me to use Growl notifications, notification sounds, and other nice features.

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Post by joelhaasnoot » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:23 PM UTC

bergie wrote: post #2

In other news, you'll be way more productive if you don't hang out on Twitter all day :-)

And use some sort of browser extension...

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by seanalltogether » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:25 PM UTC

New MBP here. It looks like it stays at a constant 7-8% cpu while sitting on the page, with momentary spikes to 30% every 15 seconds or so.

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by wizard_2 » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:32 PM UTC

I noticed the same thing on my girlfriends CR-48, twitter wont scroll properly (studders) and everything else hangs a bit. She filed a bug report with google chrome os support, but I suspect twitter is doing a lot of heavy stuff in the background.

Re: New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:37 PM UTC

I've been keeping twitter open in its own Firefox browser on one screen (of three). It routinely refreshes itself and there is some kind of memory leak whereas after a day it is consuming about half a gig of memory, forcing me to kill and restart.