Frequent cursor movement causes high cpu in chromium and xorg

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  1. Open “example .com” in chromium.
  2. Move the cursor up and down over text multiple times. The cursor will constantly switch between default and text. (css: cursor:default ,cursor:text)
  3. In ‘htop’, you can observe that xorg and chromium have high context switch(10000+) and cpu usage(25%).
  4. Add a rule ( * { cursor:default !important; } ) to the page, repeat step 2, the cursor won’t change. The context switching (500+) and cpu usage(11%) of the two processes dropped a lot.Same result as moving the cursor on the blank area with no text on the page.

Does this happen to everyone?

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I cant get chromium to use anywhere near 10% cpu even with dozens of tabs and video playing …
It certainly doesnt jump when I mouse over text.

It is probably prudent to follow @bogdancovaciu’s suggestion and include system information.