There's a leak in cockpit-0.77 where browser resources spiral out of control after a while, and cockpit-bridge starts using up crazy amounts of CPU.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/2821
This should be fixed in 0.78. The work-around is to install cockpit-pcp on your system.
Cheers,
Stef
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