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Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by anentropic »

pvg wrote: post #115
anentropic wrote: post #97

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Does anyone know a way to get Safari to show a preview of the url when you hover over a link? I tried to switch recently since it's supposed to waste less battery but two things I found were a bad experience after Chrome: - no decent ad blocker? the one I saw recommended was Ad Guard but that seems to require you to have an Electron app running simultaneously (!) in order for it to block anything - in Chrome when I h…

force trackpad press on the link to see a preview Ad Guard for Safari does not require you to run the app to block ads. Just quit the app. The hover thing might be some pref but Safari shows urls on mouseover.

When I quit the app the Ad Guard shield icon went back to "paused" so I assumed it needed to be running to work

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by anentropic »

sosborn wrote: post #116
anentropic wrote: post #97

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Does anyone know a way to get Safari to show a preview of the url when you hover over a link? I tried to switch recently since it's supposed to waste less battery but two things I found were a bad experience after Chrome: - no decent ad blocker? the one I saw recommended was Ad Guard but that seems to require you to have an Electron app running simultaneously (!) in order for it to block anything - in Chrome when I h…

View -> Show Status Bar

Ah great, that's it!

The other thing I miss with Safari I don't think there is a solution for... there's no version for Android, so I miss sharing history and passwords with the browser on my phone.

My fault for not buying all Apple devices I guess

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by lorenb »

diebeforei485 wrote: post #232
lorenb wrote: post #225

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Yeah, there was no super master plan here, just that after dealing with one sluggish computer for days (you name it, I tried it), and another one for 5 years... the fact that it turned out to be slow because of an app that wasn't even running was pretty frustrating. Filing a bug report that would get "works on my machine"'d and then ignored and auto-closed by a bot in 5 years didn't quite feel worthy. Auto-updating b…

What's a good way to verify that I've removed Keystone completely? Google doesn't provide any sort of uninstaller or uninstall instructions.

try `mdfind keystone` in terminal

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by leggenda47 »

disposekinetics wrote: post #217
leggenda47 wrote: post #142

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My WindowServer usage was over 90% before but it went back down to under 10% after I did what he said. I also only needed it to test one site I was developing. I had the exact same things he did: MBP slow even when nothing is running, WindowServer always running high. So I think I can vouch for it being true. It seems to have worked for me also. EDIT: Maybe it's just placebo. I checked the CPU usage on WindowServer b…

After reading your post I did the same thing. Similar results 90% to 20% in my case. Anecdotes aren't data but I am glad I tried.

Yeah, I had my friend try it as well because he said his was suggish as well. He said he had a similar experience

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by leggenda47 »

astrange wrote: post #238
leggenda47 wrote: post #142

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My WindowServer usage was over 90% before but it went back down to under 10% after I did what he said. I also only needed it to test one site I was developing. I had the exact same things he did: MBP slow even when nothing is running, WindowServer always running high. So I think I can vouch for it being true. It seems to have worked for me also. EDIT: Maybe it's just placebo. I checked the CPU usage on WindowServer b…

If you’re having visible performance problems, file a report with Feedback Assistant. It’s ok if it seems to be a 3rd party app causing the issue. (High CPU use isn’t necessarily a real performance issue and might be caused by just having Activity Monitor open.)

Yeah, next time I'll try that as well! Completely forgot Feedback Assistant existed, but I'm glad it is back to normal speeds now.

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by _qulr »

_qulr wrote: post #248
dang wrote: post #233

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> a dude with too much money and self-importance Personal attacks are not ok on HN. Please don't post like that again, regardless of whom you're defending.

This is a serious, non-sarcastic response: honestly, sincerely, in my experience as a HN reader off and on for years, a commenter for 6 months, and occasional author of submitted articles (usually submitted by someone other than me) that have reached #1, violation of the HN guidelines is the norm on HN, and abiding by the guidelines is the exception. I myself have been personally attacked on here, or been interpreted…

It's amusing that my reply was downvoted, as if that even matters down in a 2 person thread of replies to a flagged comment in a flagged submission. (And I already have more "karma" than I'll ever need. Does anything above 500 matter?)

More proof that HN is as juvenile as any other site.

(I realize that talking about downvoting is against the guidelines. Which is a very convenient way of avoiding the undeniable fact that upvoting and downvoting behavior on HN is highly irrational.)

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by hyperdimension »

arcticbull wrote: post #213
hyperdimension wrote: post #182

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This argument sounds eerily familiar, but I can't quite place it...

I know I can’t because the iOS App Store argument is “and you can’t have it any other way.” On macOS for as long as you can have it other ways I’m totally ok with it.

No, I was just being sarcastic because the double-standard mystifies me. I completely agree.

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by stjohnswarts »

edoceo wrote: post #141
crazygringo wrote: post #102

This should not be the #1 story on HN right now. :( It's a single anecdote that deleting Chrome on two computers sped them up. It provides zero evidence (even anecdotal) that it has anything to do with "Keystone" specifically. It provides zero evidence for the idea that "Keystone" is able to "nefariously hide itself from Activity Monitor". And it also completely contradicts the normal user experience of Chrome, which…

It's literally Chome Bad = upvote

It would have been a lot better as "Having CPU Load Issues you can't identify? This might be worth a try"

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by stjohnswarts »

ehsankia wrote: post #171
nostromo wrote: post #106

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> I can't help but wonder what the motivation behind making this page was. Why would you immediately jump to assuming bad faith? No grand conspiracy required... the author believes that Chrome is slowing down his Mac and decided to share it. The end.

Well, for one, going as far as buying a domain for a single rant is a little bit suspicious. If at least it was a website dedicated to gathering issues with chrome, but a single issue with zero evidence or research. That's not generally how people "decide to share it". Sure looks suspicious and not the content I expect to see on HN.

It's not suspicious, its $5 which is not much to a lot of people in 1st world countries, especially those with at least enough curiosity/knowledge to be able to set one up if he/she has be frustrated a long time by a slow computer.

Re: Chrome Is Bad

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Post by stjohnswarts »

franklampard wrote: post #150
z3t4 wrote: post #123

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So users are expected to run debugger tools in order to figure out what some hidden program is doing? Many years back I couldn't sleep and noticed my HDD's was working hard. I checked and it was google updater that was scanning everything... I will never know why, they might be stealing IP (i was working on OCR at the time) or they just wanted to create a profile to serve better ads...

There is a GUI program as he said. By definition, “hidden” programs are not gonna tell you what they are doing up front.

Yep lots of responsible software companies will tell you what software is doing if it goes outside the parameters of their software. Say if a program is scanning your computer for information when it's really only supposed to be a web browser.
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