Question about Firefox Energy Use
My 2019 MBP 16" got super hot pretty much instantly and the fans kicked on. This is common for every video call I do.
I checked the "Energy Impact" score in Activity Monitor and it said 56. Nothing else running had an impact score higher than 1. I know that if I don't plug the power cord in, as soon as I do a call the battery drops by 1-2% a minute.
Someone on the call suggested that I switch to Safari, and when I did after 20 minutes (on the same call) the laptop was normal temperatures, battery had only dropped 2-3% total, and the energy impact said 1.7.
Now... 56 to 1.7 seems like a huge difference. I don't know quite what the numbers mean in Apple's "Energy Impact" but I do feel that Firefox turns my laptop into a toaster.
So questions:
Is this abnormal? Should I be worried about my MBP? It seems fine in all other regards.
Are there any settings I can change to improve Firefox?
Surely the Firefox team is aware of this sort of thing, yeah? Curious why it's hard to fix -- is it Google Meet or Apple that's making it harder for Firefox to work properly? Or is battery life just not something on the Firefox radar?
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