alistair75

This is like that "If a tree falls in the woods..." thing.

If a political party announces policies and the press don't report it, did it actually happen.

The information is out there. Unfortunately with our media the way it is, you have to go looking for it.

https://twitter.com/LabourEoin/status/854301186756882432

Short version: the Wired journalist doesn't really understand what they're talking about. I can't believe no-one has pointed this out yet.

There is a Google Chrome Helper process for each tab you have open, for each extension you have installed, for each plugin that is currently running and one to talk to the GPU in your system.

If you enable "Click to play" and open Chrome with one empty tab you'll still have at least two Google Chrome Helper processes. One for the empty tab and one for the GPU process. If you've installed any extensions you'll have more. There is no way to "destroy the Google Chrome Helper".

That article is very badly written.

Pages does it too. Export a document in DOCX format and you get the same PNG file. Export a document in Word 97-2003 format and you get three of these PNG files!

http://mcmillan.cx/blog/2014/05/31/bloated-exports-from-page...

Is there a chance that you have more than one instance of Java installed? I've seen this on a few machines. An up to date copy of Java in "c:\Program Files" and an outdated version still sitting in "c:\Windows". Try about:plugins in the address bar, I think that should list all installed versions.

For what it's worth, I haven't changed those settings on either of my machines.

Just tried this myself with a couple of 8.5MB MP3 files. One appeared on the second machine in about a minute, the other in about a minute 30.

Not sure why this is taking upwards of 12 minutes for the OP.