Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today?

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today?
Date	2020-11-15 14:04 +1300
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 2020-11-15 00:21:33 +0000, Percival John Hackworth said:
> 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.

Chrome is garbage at the best of times - slow, buggy, and seems to make 
*a lot* of unnecessary connections to Google servers compared to other 
web browsers. I only use it for one particular website, and for 
everything else I use Safari and occasionally Firefox.

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Did your Mac(s) get slow today? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-12 22:10 -0600
  Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-11-13 18:25 +1300
    Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-14 05:45 -0600
      Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-11-15 09:30 +1300
        Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-14 15:10 -0600
  Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-13 17:00 +0000
    Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-14 01:22 +0000
      Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-14 16:30 +0000
  Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Alan Ralph <usenet@alanralph.co.uk> - 2020-11-13 17:55 +0000
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      Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Supermarine Spitfire <spitfire@spitfireflyinghigh.com> - 2020-11-14 14:07 +0000
  Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? RocketSurgeon <48forward@gmail.com> - 2020-11-13 12:39 -0800
  Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Neill Massello <nmassello@yahoo.com> - 2020-11-13 21:43 +0000
    Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Addictive <colours@shades.of.grey> - 2020-11-13 22:59 +0000
      Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-14 03:38 -0600
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      Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-14 03:31 +0000
        Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-14 03:39 -0600
          Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Neill Massello <nmassello@yahoo.com> - 2020-11-14 19:47 +0000
            Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-11-14 14:52 -0600
              Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-14 22:06 +0000
            Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2020-11-15 00:21 +0000
              Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Neill Massello <nmassello@yahoo.com> - 2020-11-15 01:02 +0000
                Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-15 18:39 +0000
              Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2020-11-15 14:04 +1300
              Re: Did your Mac(s) get slow today? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-15 18:33 +0000

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