see my report here:
60% CPU load with current animation on Google home page (“buckyballs”)
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=72f718332b9bd96a&hl=en
leave Google main search page idle and see the result :
ps: in the meantime >>> blocking that with Ad-Block+ in firefox
edit: abp isn’t enough, still much CPU load as long as the page is displayed.
edit: blocking javascript on google.com with NoScript works >>> CPU load goes down.
I don’t know where you are getting this I don’'t see it in my google searches. I have The firefox search bar set to Google as the default and I don’t get this.
Yes if I go to google.com first to make a search I get that and the slow increase in CPU to about 25%, if I play with the buckyball with the mouse pointer, spin it etc. yes it goes up a bit more but it doesn’t get to anything like 60%
it’s not just me, see the link I posted above to Google forums, and there’s another thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=1990519f990f741f&hl=en&fid=1990519f990f741f00048f638c26bfb0
I get the 60% overload without doing anything with the animation, just leaving the page idle.
so again:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=72f718332b9bd96a&hl=en
edit: you of course don’t get anything if you use the search box or the address bar ;D
Here with the buckyball the Cpu increased exponentional to 66% and after staying 1 minute playing with it the CPu usage stayed the same(±66%).
okay, that’s just it
@ disPlay: thanks for posting there 
No problem logos, Hopefully the buckyball will go away is a short period of time 
That animation is certainly CPU hungry!
can’t believe they haven’t removed it yet…
Maybe it’s time to upgrade systems, don’t you think? I’ve seen it on my animation and haven’t realy noticed it’s causing problems to my system…
Mine goes from about 2% to 20-30% on my system…I don’t really see a slowdown, but it is a little hungry for CPU…
okay the simpler is to switch to ssl >>> https://www.google.com/
No problem on my Windows 7 system but my XP Pro system really slows down untill I leave http://www.google.ca
Google is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Buckyball - the discovery of Buckminster-Fullerene molecules - as an interactive Google Doddle on Saturdayhttp://www.pocket-lint.com/news/35448/google-doodles-buckyball-buckminster-fullerene
Upgrade my system to spin a buckyball in google? I don’t think so.
If it can’t handle that, it’s probably outdated really for anything else as well…
hey, can you stop posting negative stuff everywhere you can…I think that’s enough, you’re doing that everywhere on every topic and every forum you post…just spreading your negative impressions about everything…there are cures…pills…therapies etc…nobody here is concerned with your own personal depression alright? :
to display >>> no need to worry, people with recent systems, including myself, posted in the Google thread about the issue…
I’m suppose to be depressed and negative and you guys are complaining over a webpage animation that won’t be there tomorrow. Just a thought…
More like reporting a bug…
I am seeing around 20-30 percent cpu usage with IE8 and it appears normal on Chrome(latest stable).
a thought ??? >>> keep thinking I like it ;D
Around 9%… it’s not like i’m gonna stick around main page for long. In fact i never really see the Google page since i’m typing everything in the URL bar. “g buckyballs” and i search in Google for term “buckyballs”.