Got this email from my son today asking for my thoughts. If anyone else has had this issue .. your thoughts please ?
Or if you would like the rest of the article, I can email to you off WAMUG. > Chrome is Bad > Dec 12 2020 <https://twitter.com/lorenb/status/1337832978253230081> > Short story: Google Chrome installs an updater called Keystone on your > computer, which is bizarrely correlated > <https://twitter.com/lorenb/timelines/1338892756752732169> to massive > unexplained CPU usage in WindowServer (a system process)[1], and made my > whole computer slow even when Chrome wasn't running. Deleting Chrome and > Keystone made my computer way, way faster, all the time. Click here for > instructions. > > Long story: I noticed my brand new 16" MacBook Pro started acting sluggishly > doing even trivial things like scrolling. Activity Monitor showed *nothing* > from Google using the CPU, but WindowServer was taking ~80%, which is > abnormally high (it should use <10% normally). > > Doing all the normal things (quitting apps, logging out other users, > restarting, zapping PRAM/SMC, etc) did nothing, then I remembered I had > installed Chrome a while back to test a website. > > I deleted Chrome, and noticed Keystone while deleting some of Chrome's other > preferences and caches. I deleted everything from Google I could find, > restarted the computer, and it was like night-and-day. Everything was > instantly and noticeably faster, and WindowServer CPU was well under 10% > again. > > Then something else hit me, my family had been complaining about the sluggish > performance of a 2015 iMac since practically the day we bought it. I had > tried everything I could think of – it had a Fusion drive and the symptoms > were consistent with a failing SSD – but drive diagnostics always turned up > nothing. We even went as far as to completely wipe and set up the computer > fresh multiple times. > > Then I remembered, installing Chrome was always one of the first things we > did when we set up the computer. I deleted Chrome, and all the files Keystone > had littered on the computer, restarted, and it was so snappy it felt like a > brand new computer. > > Yeah, I realize this sounds like a freakin' infomercial, but it worked so > well I spent a whole $5 on a domain name and set up this website even if it > makes me sound like a raving nut. > Regards Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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