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kaffeinecoma on Aug 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mac OS X 10.8.1 is out.

That's interesting. I just moved back to Safari because ever since Lion, Chrome has been totally unusable for me.

The Flash/Shockwave that they bundle in consistently pegged my CPU after a few minutes of use. The whole desktop would get laggy and sluggish, to the point that I could barely operate the Finder enough to do a Force Quit. After a year of trying all kinds of things to fix/mitigate it, I just gave up and went back to Safari. Weird, since I rarely hear complaints from others about Chrome, but for me it was unusable. Even tried a fresh OS install to no effect.

philwelch on Aug 23, 2012 [–]

So disable Flash and selectively reenable it for those few sites that require it. Chrome has click-to-flash functionality built in.

kaffeinecoma on Aug 23, 2012 | [–]

Yup, tried it, did not help. The minute I'd hit a site needing flash (Google Voice was a frequent one) it'd go bonkers again.

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