ChatGPT website keeps a silent macOS audio session active, causing sustained coreaudiod CPU usage in Firefox

· Community Openai · Sept. 12, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
Firefox safari macos CPU Usage
Summary
The blog post discusses an issue where the ChatGPT website keeps an audio session active on macOS, leading to excessive CPU usage in Firefox. It mentions that the issue also reproduces in Safari.
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