Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!peer01.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!fx17.ams1.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: Is Chrome bad? Newsgroups: alt.computer.workshop References: <0RBBH.49399$9F.38628@fx47.iad> From: David_B User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.16; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0RBBH.49399$9F.38628@fx47.iad> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4vGBH.51290$9gmb.1803@fx17.ams1> X-Complaints-To: abuse@blocknews.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:45:36 UTC Organization: blocknews - www.blocknews.net Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:45:36 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1871 Bytes: 2074 On 14/12/2020 04:27, Snit wrote: > https://chromeisbad.com >     ----- >     Short story: Google Chrome installs something called Keystone on >     your computer, which nefariously hides itself from Activity >     Monitor and makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn't >     running. >     ----- > > If you want to try what they suggest and get rid of Chrome, but still go > to sites that you need the same engine, there are other browsers that > use it. > I do not have such slow down issues, at least not often, but I have seen > WindowServer have odd spikes. Might be worth testing. > > For me I would first install another browser that uses the same engine. > Hesitate to suggest Edge but I might use that. Then make sure I transfer > bookmarks and the like over, test it to make sure it works, and toss > Chrome as suggested by the site. > > If it does nothing I will just re-install Chrome. No harm. Might one not use AppCleaner to remove Google Chrome? I've not noticed such problems myself.