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From: Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today?
Date: 15 Nov 2020 00:21:33 GMT
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On 14-Nov-2020 at 11:47:30AM PST, "Neill Massello" <nmassello@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> On 2020-11-14 at 02:39:29 MST, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:
> 
>>  And having no Internet. ;)
> 
> Yes. When my system had the same symptoms many weeks ago, I cured it by
> turning of the cable modem and restarting. Again, this is stupid design on
> Apple's part.

I recall seeing my Chrome slow to a crawl, not resolving DNS and all my tabs
not loading which was Version 86.0.4240.183. That's the release that replaced
111 which had some security issues on Android.  I tried other apps and
nslookup/dig/ping/traceroute on the terminal.  They were fine but that version
of Chrome would only partially load my pages.  Safari, Firefox, Brave and
Opera had no problems with the same pages.  I went back to Version
86.0.4240.111 and the pages loaded fine.  I've been waiting ever since for 183
to be upgraded until yesterday when 198 came out. It's fine but this is the
reason I keep two versions of DMGs around, even though I have Time Machine
running.

I thought this slowdown might be related but it seems not. When this happened
with Chrome was about a week ago and it was only with Chrome.

This "phone home" process being unblockable on MacOS 11 means I may be leaving
MacOS and Apple with my next system. It most certainly won't be one of the
Apple M1 systems.

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