Re:Chrome Is Bad
by Siyo on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:30PM
(#25401416)
Most likely the issue was resolved by the reboot, not by uninstalling Chrome. From my experience Mac OS tends to slow down after a few days. Animations and scrolling gets choppy and there's nothing I can do to fix it, short of rebooting.
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I can assure you that it wasn't related just to rebooting as this has been something that's been bugging me for months. I had previously rebooted earlier in the day because of this exact same issue (a runaway WindowServer process), before I saw this article. I also did a fresh reboot before following these instructions too as a sort of "control".
The change only happened for me after removing Chrome as well as the launch agent for keystone.
> From my experience Mac OS tends to slow down after a few days
Just for the sake of the argument, do you have installed Chrome?
Re:Chrome Is Bad
by thewebcount on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:45PM
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I use macOS daily for months at a time without rebooting and have not seen this problem on any of the 5 Macs I've been using for the past several years, for what that's worth. It does seem like it's something specific to your machine.
Re:Chrome Is Bad
by stjohnswarts on Sunday December 13, 2020 @03:42PM
(#25410047)
Does your system have Chrome on it, because if it doesn't then you observations don't really apply since the conversation is centered around a bug possibly associated with that. Personally I don't allow chrome on my machines. I do install brave for those cases where I have to use "chrome" because some company simply doesn't design their web app for anything else otherwise it's firefox.
The question is: Chrome, or no Chrome? xD
Yes. Just like Linux - in 1996.
Very sad.
(I have recently started using Apple tools for developping with Swift/Xcode on iPad. I am very unimpressed by the quality of the tools, and quite impressed by the range and depth of features....)