I have around 8 gigs of Ram available on my PC, and when reading novels, the one tab alone uses up around 50% of the CPU.
This wouldn't usually be a problem, but the high RAM crashed my laptop and I had to force shutdown.
(Are you mining cryptos on my pc? )

PS: I use Edge browser (Most sites use less RAM on edge)

    FillerArc I'm using edge as the browser for my Webnovel reading if on a tablet with only 2gb of Ram running windows 10. edge, with 3 tabs open (discord, webnovel and forum), is eating up 300+mb, current usage of memory at 69-70%.

    Maybe it is something else that is eating up your memory, like maybe third party antivirus, adware, malware or firewall software.

    I'm only running defender, no addons like adblock on mine, and using Windows Firewall only. So I'm no sure why your PC is suffering to that degree.

    It might be something else @FillerArc

      As @17Sphynx17 said, I think it is something else.

      The highest value from _ that I observed was 0,5%
      I then opened up a novel + imgur to upload the images

      and that is the highest value I saw, it fell to 0,5% shortly after I took the screenshot.

      I also had a couple of school-related programs opened in the background like Teams, powerpoint, excel and loggerpro.

        5 days later

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        I've noticed that the CPU usage only goes up when I'm in the webnovel tag. Also, as I've said, it's when reading novels, not in the forums, library, or any other page.

          The bug is real, I never used Edge so I don't have any add-ons/plugins. Plus my antivirus Eset detects no viruses or other harmful programs.

          Results:

          The cpu usage is constantly ranging between 20-23%. The ram is about 885Mb. GPU is about 0.7%.

          How to reproduce:
          Having the last windows 10 with latest updates. Opening edge without any plugins (adblock or other things). I wasn't logged so do it unlogged. Go to webnovel, search for the novel "Silent Crown" and start reading from chapter 1. Then go to chapter 51 "A pity" by scrolling (dunno if it's important but that's what I did) and then it should do the same bug.

          I don't have time to look into other novels to look if it does the same thing. I have an intel core i7 here so the CPU usage is really high for what it should be. Even when I'm playing games, my cpu usage is not as high.

            So I had some time to run a performance analysis and it seems that this file is running in loop https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/r20180613/r20180604/osd.js . It can't define a variable d and try to always define it.

            Seems like this bug exist and is reported in google forums, dunno if it's the one here but here is some more insights: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/dfp/K0WbpLvlG4M

            RohanKumar He can but the goal when you develop a website is to at least make it run correctly on the most recent browser, so he shouldn't have the need to use another browser just for @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL .

            Dunno who are the devs but better to tag them so they can see the bug.

              I did have a novel open (I loaded my entire diary), I never had any issues with the site but it could maybe have something to do with me using the enterprise and education versions of Windows.

              I think @dapenggaofei and @shllove are devs for the general site. (please don't hit me if I am wrong >_<)

                akuma06 hi, you specifically searched for that novel that is the one that seems to be affecting the original.poster.

                Could it be a hidden line of text then thst the site could be pushing out as the loop code you are speculating?

                I honestly dont know how they coded publishing in webnovel for translators. but we did have that code issue bug that affected original author publishing works that had symbols in it.

                I dont know..not a programmer. Just theorizing.

                  17Sphynx17 Actually it could, it seems (didn't look really into it, don't have time) this code is trying to get the dimensions of something (the size of a div or the screen). I didn't look how but if it uses the text from the chapter to do that then depending on how they manage characters encoding, it might lead to a loop.

                  Anyway, this would be better to have someone really look into this bug. It might actually be another part of the javascript sources :smile: . And if it's really this script (from google) then the only option would be to hope that Google correct it.

                    akuma06 I can understand. The page has stored too much data from Chapter1 to Chapter51. We will have some fix for this. And Thanks for your performance analysis.

                      akuma06 Thanks for validating the bug. It seems that it doesn't always happen and varies with novels.
                      dapenggaofei As you can see, this is the first chapter. So, it need not be due to storage. (But, I'm not sure if it has started to store the upcoming chapters)
                      Thank you and hopefully, it's fixed soon.

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                        akuma06 Thanks for validating the bug. It seems that it doesn't always happen and varies with novels.
                        dapenggaofei As you can see, this is the first chapter. So, it need not be due to storage. (But, I'm not sure if it has started to store the upcoming chapters)
                        Thank you and hopefully, it's fixed soon.

                          FillerArc We find the RAM is extremely high in Edge browser compared with other browsers like chrome, safari and etc. We will find what's the problem. Thanks for your feedback.

                            dapenggaofei No problem, I know it can be hard to dev things when you have to deal with multiple browsers. Hope you can find what is actually causing it!

                              6 days later

                              Yea, well, the CPU spike isn't only for this browser, it appears on all of them, including Chrome. It is lesser, sure, but it is present there nonetheless. And I'm saying this after also trying it by having having simultaneously opened 20-30 tabs - Chrome uses 6-9% CPU (one tab playing YouTube video in background), yet the moment I begin reading a chapter in Chrome is spikes to 9-15%. So no, this bug isn't Edge specific. How could reading text use more resources than playing a video?

                              Also, to receive a CPU spike, you don't need to scroll over multiple chapters, directly opening any one of them will cause it immediately.

                              Normal state of CPU when having multiple webnovel pages opened without opening any Chapter to read
                              Normal state of CPU when having multiple webnovel pages opened without opening any Chapter to read

                              Spike on CPU after opening a chapter to read, without scrolling down and opening multiple chapters
                              Spike on CPU after opening a chapter to read, without scrolling down and opening multiple chapters

                              Here I have Chrome opened with 8 additional tabs, with the 9th being Webnovel.com Library:
                              Chrome with 8 additional tabs and 9th being Webnovel Library

                              And here is Chrome with Webnovel Library being replaced with Webnovel Chapter/Reading (after the CPU stops fluctuating)
                              Chrome with 8 additional tabs and 9th being Webnovel Library

                              A spike of 2.3% for what? Each tab in Chrome on the first page uses 0.24% (2.2% / 9 tabs), yet the only difference in the second image is Webnovel Library changing to Webnovel Chapter/reading page and CPU usage jumps from 2.2% to 4.5%. That is more CPU usage than all 9 tabs from the first example combined.

                              Also the Chrome spike even after stabilizing still fluctuates between 4.4% and 5.6%, which means I took a screenshot of nearly minimum for the above example (I've been writing this post in Edge while Chrome was opened in the background all this time without scrolling down the Chapter or even using it at all, so that's not the reason for the fluctuations!)

                                17Sphynx17 When you are using 70% of your memory Windows will begin treating it differently and hence automatically lowering memory usage… The more memory PC has, the more freedom browser will receive and hence bigger and more noticeable differences in memory usage.

                                  Olivia Also, your memory is also similarly nearly full, mine is staying at 40% while doing these tests, so maybe that's the reason it can afford to do something more, than merely read stuff. Or the reason Windows can afford to lend it more resources.

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