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Have they given any follow-up to the https://chromeisbad.com https://chromeisbad.com fiasco?

• jasonvorhe 6y ago
  Has there ever been a deeper investigation into this that goes beyond "I did a thing on my computer and something changed somehow"?
• coldtea 6y ago
  Well, if by "fiasco" we mean "a random person wrote some random observations about his computer and chrome on some random website" then, probably they don't really need to follow up on it...
  • vinger 6y ago
    I think it's important and may explain a lot. The fact that they started looking into this is a good sign. I've always wondered what the slowdown with having chrome or not was and this could explain it.
  • lukifer 6y ago
    Loren Brichter is a long-time Mac developer and hardly a "random person"; and his claims were based on anecdata from multiple machines and Twitter reports. Pareidolia is certainly a reasonable null-hypothesis (similar to 99% of computing rain-dances, like repeated defragmentation, or "closing" iOS apps). But assuming the problem isn't completely coincidental or imagined, it would still be good to get to the bottom of it, whether the root problem is Apple's or Google's. Just now noticed the bug-tracker thread: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1158402#c18 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115840...
• smoldesu 6y ago
  Looks like a MacOS issue to me. I used Chrome for years on my x201 with i3, it idled only a few degrees above room temp with Chrome open.