I noticed my brand new 16' MacBook Pro started acting sluggishly doing even trivial things like scrolling. It also has a long history of crashing Macs.įrom Loren's website, and this part really resonated with me, and I'll tell you why in a sec: There is no reason for auto-update software to need to do what Chrome/Keystone was doing. But either way, I'm not inclined to give Google-the-organization the benefit of the doubt (despite the many good people who work on Chrome) since it's been a decade+ and this still hasn't been 'fixed'. I don't know if Google was doing something nefarious with Keystone, or a third party figured out how to (which Wired warned about). And other websites have reported on problems with it since then. But, according to Loren's theory, when that process goes wrong, it goes wrong before Keystone shows up in Activity Monitor, which makes it effectively hidden even as it's causing the problem.Īlso, that this is nothing new, that Wired called Keystone 'evil' way back in 2009 already, when it kicked off with Google Earth.
Now, it isn't that Google's background updater, Keystone, hides itself from Activity Monitor it's that it only shows up when it's actively updating Chrome.
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