Try viewing Imgur.com on Safari. Just scroll a bit until you get a couple gifs displayed and check the CPU usage on the imgur.com tab. Just insane that a few gifs destroy an i7. Is it bad video compression? I notice imgur attempts to make gifs from mp4 files and vice versa but damn. A 5 year old iPhone has no problem with this task.

It'd be nice if you could throttle processor usage. I'd rather have a choppy experience on the occasionally website than constant fans and having my Mac turn into a heater.

That’s awesome. Thanks for the link

I do not know about macos, but in Linux you could achieve this by running your process in a cgroup.

It was unusable for me too, afaik it had to do with scaling more than anything else, so if you toy around with scaling factors it might help.