Hi Peter. I have emailed the rest of that article to you privately. > On 4 Apr 2021, at 5:11 pm, Pete <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for that, it's interesting. How does one uninstall Chrome? > > > Regards > > Pete > >> On 4 Apr 2021, at 11:59 am, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
Regards Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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