some confusion
what I'm saying is my power usage is crazy when doing basically nothing, but when I open 'task manager' (alt ctrl del , task mgr), and it uses LESS immediately,
then I can even have 50 processes open with all my horse stuff on 5 full tracks running, and it uses LESS power usage than before i did the task mgr thing...
there seems to be something with my computer that's using power, that then stops/decreases-significantly once Task Manager is opened.
Hence my tip and question as to whether this is happening to others.
again, as I said to Dave - it could be something else and not malware, but it could also be malware.
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now, I AGREE 100%
with the separate discussion of how these browsers use additional processes which is disgusting.
I'm going to give Brave Browser a look