Thanks for that, it's interesting. How does one uninstall Chrome?
Regards Pete > On 4 Apr 2021, at 11:59 am, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> 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 >> >> Short story: Google Chrome installs an updater called Keystone on your >> computer, which is bizarrely correlated 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>
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