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Right off the bat, we have a very close round. Neither browser is particularly feature-heavy, but they. Other than it hides from the activity monitor when Chrome is or is not running. The site goes on to suggest other browsers, but doesn't recommend Firefox for a reason. As far as I'm concerned, I find all the browsers have good reasons not to be used, more so on Chrome, but that's my opinion on its own.

Ever since Microsoft began the ramp for Windows 10, there’s been an unpleasant aspect to how the company has “marketed” the operating system. Microsoft’s “Get Windows 10” tool began as a helpful notification to let you know when your PC was approved for upgrading and transformed over the course of a year into malware that broke its own UI conventions and deliberately obfuscated user attempts to delay or avoid the upgrade. Eventually, even Microsoft acknowledged that it had gone too far with pushing people to upgrade to the OS.

1. Therefore chrome bad gets hundreds of upvotes. I guarantee you not everyone read the entire article, and then ran their own diagnostic CPU benchmarking to verify the results, and also compared it against chrome competitors. It's more like the common folk like chrome, and chrome ruin PCS for us.
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But the push never really stopped. Windows 10 updates have reset advertising preferences and other defaults. Microsoft introduced ads on the lock screen, ads within File Explorer, ads that show when you use Chrome, and ads for Edge that pop up within Windows 10. With nearly every update (and definitely every year), Microsoft has increased the ways in which Windows 10 begs you to use Windows 10. Now, with the October 2018 update, Microsoft is once again introducing new ways for its operating system to beg you to use the Garbage Browser Officially Known as Edge.

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As Thurrot.com notes, visit and download Chrome, and you’re greeted with the above. There is absolutely no justification for this. Chrome is not malware. There is no valid reason for Microsoft to be warning me about a Chrome download, and the use of the word “warning” is Redmond’s language, not mine.

Furthermore, some of the defaults around how apps are delivered to your PC have changed. Under Settings > Apps, you used to have the option to “Allow apps from anywhere (Default),” “Warn before installing apps from outside the Store”, and “Allow apps from the Store only.” The new options are “Turn off app recommendations,” “Show me app recommendations (Default),” “Warn me before installing apps from outside the Store,” and “Allow apps from the Store only.”

Microsoft has changed the default from “Allow me to install apps from anywhere,” to “Show me app recommendations.” What that means is that the company has given it permission to annoy you with warnings — warnings — that you might be using a piece of software that you intended to use.

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I use Edge every single day. It serves as my “stock” browser — I don’t have any add-ons or extensions installed and I use it for certain email accounts and for chatting in Slack. It’s the browser I use the least for general browsing, yet simultaneously the browser I am constantly killing and restarting due to inappropriate resource utilization, slow system response, and general hangs.

In Chrome, if you set your search engine to Bing and then right-click some selected text on a web page, the right-click window will ask if you wish to search Bing for this text string. In Edge, if you perform the same action with Google as your default search engine, you can ask Bing. If you perform the same action with DuckDuckGo as your search engine, you can ask Bing. Then, instead of opening the new results in a window, you’ll get a useless, badly formatted sidebar that you have to scroll to the bottom of and then manually click to open in a new window. There is no way to make this the default behavior. There is no way to tell Edge that you’d like to use a different search engine.

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Three years after launch, Edge still feels like it isn’t finished baking yet. Yes, it’s power-efficient. Yes, it can stream video at higher fidelity than other browsers. It might even deserve to be the first browser you reach for when battery life is at a premium, but Microsoft’s constant attempts to shove me towards a browser that works least well out of all the browsers on my system is unwelcome and intrusive.

Since being polite and hoping Redmond would get the message obviously doesn’t work, let me speak plainly. Microsoft, this is exactly how you drive customers away. Inventing new ways to give yourself permission to annoy users isn’t innovative or helpful. It does not encourage individuals to see Windows 10 as an OS that they want to use.

You are training your end users to expect that with each new Windows release, they must spend time digging through settings to find all the things you stealthily changed and shut them off again. This kind of subterfuge encourages customers to view the update process as fundamentally adversarial, because it requires us to spend time shutting things off rather than giving them a chance to function as intended. It encourages end users to believe the worst about your company’s practices and behaviors. When Microsoft chose to make Windows 10’s upgrade advisor pushier and more aggressive, it didn’t just make people angry; it fed a narrative of distrust and deceit, priming people to believe that MS wanted them to use Windows 10 so it could collect and monetize data based on how individuals use their computers. If you ever wonder why people harbor such suspicion towards Microsoft, take a look in the mirror. It’s because you’ve taught them to. You’ve taught them to expect that feature updates will include “features” no one asked for that have to be disabled in order to restore a machine to the proper order, where “proper order” is defined as “My computer does not nag me to install software that I do not want, did not ask for, and will not use.”

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We know that Microsoft Edge’s uptake sucks. We know nobody uses the Microsoft Store. We know you’re experimenting with new ways to boost discoverability and yes, for the record, we hate it when Google spits the same “You could be using Chrome!” messages when you visit Google on a non-Chrome browser. But that’s the difference. Chrome is a browser. Windows 10 is the underlying operating system. Burying your advertising hooks directly into the OS and using them this way feels like having the contractor who built your house constantly plastering your windows with advertisements for his interior decorating company. It’s invasive, intrusive, unwanted, and you’re poisoning your reservoirs of consumer goodwill.

If you actually care about the long-term health of the Windows ecosystem or the PC market, you’ll stop pursuing these consumer-hostile attacks on user choice. It would be one thing if Edge represented any kind of great alternative to Firefox and Chrome. Instead, it’s a great alternative to Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape Communicator 4. If that comparison seems unfair — and it should — maybe pay a little attention to why people are angry enough to be making it rather than focusing on how Edge is not literally the third-worst browser ever built. The question Microsoft should be asking is, “Why are people talking about how our operating system has been harmed by our latest update rather than improved?”

Stop the bullshit FUD-based advertising. It demeans you and insults both your product and your users. We don’t need your “warnings.” Act like a Fortune 500 company, not a whining child.

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'Chrome is Bad' is the title of a website released by developer Loran Brichter that claims Google Chrome is slowing down Apple Mac computers.

Brichter says the web browser installs the auto-update mechanism Keystone in the background, which hides from the Activity Monitor, and results in the WindowServer having high CPU usage.

The solution, he claims, is to uninstall both Chrome and Keystone and then restart your computer which should improve performance – but a report from 9to5Mac is calling Brichter's bluff.

Guilherme Rambo with 9to5Mac investigated the problem and solution and determined the claim that Chrome is slowing down MacBooks is 'wild.'

With Chrome installed, Rambo found the WindowServer process used 50s of CPU and 49s when the Google services were removed and trashed.

However, a number of people have attempted Brichter's suggestion and found their Mac computer 'is running a lot cooler than before.'

Brichter released the website over the weekend, which he 'spent $5 on a domain name,' to pull the mask off Google Chrome.

'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),' reads the website.

After closing apps, logging out other users and restarting the MacBook, Brichter remembered he installed Google Chrome only to test a website.

'I deleted Chrome, and noticed Keystone while deleting some of Chrome's other preferences and caches,' Brichter wrote.

'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.'

Brichter shared his website on Twitter, which was spotted by Mark Change who works for Google Chrome.

Chang replied to the tweet saying: 'Keystone is indeed the Chrome updater for Mac. It does not hide itself from Activity Monitor and it only runs (at low priority) when it has tasks to perform.'

'We aren't aware of any open issues that would cause high CPU usage from Keystone, but please file a bug at crbug.com with steps to reproduce it, and we'll try and fix it as quickly as possible.'

Other Twitter users chimed in saying the issue is just another example of how Chrome abuses its users and some pointed at the idea that there may be another anti-trust lawsuit in the future.

Instructions from 'Chrome is Bad' to trash Chrome services

Go to your /Applications folder and drag Chrome to the Trash.

In the Finder click the Go menu (at the top of the screen), then click 'Go to Folder...'.

Type in /Library and hit enter.

Check the following folders: LaunchAgents, Application Support, Caches, Preferences.

Delete all the Google folders, and anything else that starts with com.google... and com.google.keystone...

Go to 'Go to Folder...' again.

Type in ~/Library and hit enter. (Note the '~')

Check the following folders: LaunchAgents, Application Support, Caches, Preferences.

Delete all the Google folders, and anything else that starts with com.google... and com.google.keystone...

Empty the Trash, and restart your computer.

Alec Joy, a developer, also took to Twitter to ask users not to share the Chrome is Bad website 'until someone actually verifies that Chrome and Keystone were the root cause of the problem.'

Rambo was one of the many MacBook owners who saw the Chrome is Bad website and did his own investigation into Brichter's claims.

He started with the notion that Chrome Keystone has stealth capabilities, allowing it to fly under the radar.

The only way for Keystone to run undetected, according to Rambo, is if it terminates its own process so a user does not see it in Activity Monitor, but 'a static analysis found no' such strategy.

Google offers two Keystone services: Keystone User Agent and Keystone XPC Service.

The Keystone User Agent is designed to search for updates and does so about one every hour, while the XPC Service only activates when a Google app needs to update itself.

Rambo says that neither of these run indefinitely in the background and only activate when a Google app triggers it.

He also reverse engineered the services and found they did appear in Activity Monitor, but as 'Google Software Update.'

The next claim he tackled was 'Google Chrome updater is causing the WindowServer CPU usage?'

The investigation was conducted with a 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro with a Core i9 processor and 16GB of RAM, in which no other apps running in the background.

During this experiment, Rambo did two sessions while observing CPU usage – one with Google Chrome installed and another one with Google Chrome and the updater services uninstalled.

With Chrome installed, the WindowServer process used 50s of CPU and 49s when the Google services were uninstalled.

'Apart from that, the entire claim that a process which runs once per hour would cause a completely unrelated system service to have high CPU usage is wild,' Rambo shared.

He is chalking up the success of Brichter's claims to either the Placebo Effect of Confirmation Bias – or just the idea that restarting a computer typically fixes such issues.

Brichter claims, according to 9to5Mac, may fit two narratives: there is a problem, you do something another person told you should fix it and you feel the issue is resolved.

The other possibility is users hate Google Chrome and are on board with any idea to remove it from their Mac.

However, this is not the first time Chrome's Keystone has been accused of messing with MacBooks.

Last year, film editors in Las Angeles found their Macs were unable to reboot.

Google Chrome Is Not Bad

Two days following the report, Google revealed the problem stemmed from a new Keystone version.

When it was installed on Macs that had disabled the security feature system integrity prevention, 'a crucial part of the Mac system file was damaged,' Arstechnia reported.

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