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Everything else is working fine, but Google Chrome is running very slowly. The response time for every action is around 4-5 seconds, and sometimes it takes even longer. This sluggish performance has become quite noticeable and is impacting the overall browsing experience. If anyone has experienced a similar issue or has any suggestions on how to improve Chrome's speed, I would greatly appreciate your insights.
We don't allow any software written by Google on our Macs. Not Chrome, Google Earth, or anything else. Google's real business is collecting marketing data. You are their unwilling and unpaid source for it when you use any of their junk. If Safari isn't a browser you care much for, try Firefox or Brave. If you have one, you do not need Chrome to access your Google account. You can do that from any browser.
Google told users that when using incognito/private mode, Chrome would not track your usage, or collect data. They lied. It did anyway. Google has now agreed to settle the 2020 lawsuit with a five billion dollar fine.
Instead of harping on Kurt Lang's perfectly appropriate replies, why don't you help the OP solve his Google Chrome problems? Perhaps he did already, by following the valuable advice already posted by experienced helpers.
And if you need help with your difficulties with Safari, I suggest that you create your own Discussion. If you did, I am unable to find it. To learn how to use this site effectively, please read Find answers and ask questions in the Apple Support Community - Apple Support.
The same issue for me. Chrome is painstakingly slow in my Macbook Air M2. It has nothing to do with what processes are running and how many tabs are open. It is slow even if it is the only app that is running with only a single tab open. My Mac is new, 8 GB RAM, 400+ GB of free memory.
Yup, there are always exceptions that force the user to require a specific browser. I've seen other users mention they have to use Firefox with their bank because that's the only browser a bank supplied extension runs under.
Unlike Google Chrome, Brave does not demand full time all the time constant access to your Mac, uploading its information to its command-and-control servers to the detriment of its performance and your privacy.
Really, don't use the program. No one needs Chrome, Mac users especially. Installing Google Chrome obviates most of the reasons for even having a Mac. If you are required to use Google products, buy a Chromebook.
Same for me. I usually use Safari but recently installed Chrome so that I could use the Beyond 20 extension for Roll 20 and D&D Beyond. I'm running Chrome with those 2 tabs open and nothing else but the problem starts as soon as I start Chrome. Just to click the button to open a new tab takes 10-15 seconds. Everything else on my Mac is lightning fast and I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary on the Activity Tracker. Chrome itself isn't even using much for system resources. I tried an uninstall and reinstall but same problem.
I don't why you're having so much trouble with Safari. I used it through my entire business career without issue. And why does my browser need a calendar? I had that in Outlook for decades, and now in the free eM Client. Why would I need to duplicate that function in my browser?
I have experienced none of the issues you list after that. Zero. You must be doing something wrong. We have ad blockers on all of our devices. Macs, iPhones and iPads. They work in Safari as expected.
But the true is Safari is very basic. Doesn't fully work with Microsoft 365, no PWA, not opening websites or displaying incorrectly, Cannot select part of the link & hit right search for it ie translate etc. No proper add blocker/pop up can be installed. Pinch to zoom in/out randomly not working. Swipe to back looking good except killing previous session and page is refreshed most of the times. Formatting issue while searching for images and zooming in. So complicated when you want to clear cookies, check ssl certificate. I am IT admin for 18 years and I know how many calls I am having every day because 'something is not working'. My answer is always did you try using chrome (or chromium based browser? Always works these days when almost 90% businesses are on cloud (Microsoft/Amazon Hyper-vs)
Google still deposits tracking cookies on the local Mac correlated to public IP addresses and anything else they can grab that serves to keep you confined to their search bubble, deliver targeted advertising, and make sure you don't engage in any wrongthink.
It's not a particularly good search engine anyway. The only thing Google offers that other search engines don't is to provide thousands of hits within 0.002 seconds or whatever they're proud of proclaiming. I prefer relevant results over thousands ranked by whatever algorithm Google wants for its own purposes.
"weknow.ac" changes a group of Chrome policies so as to set a new default homepage, new tab behavior, etc. You can see your current Chrome policies by typing chrome://policy/ into your URL bar. If you're infected, it should be very obvious as the half-dozen or so policies changed by weknow will be displayed.
The adware behind this has gotten very sneaky about how these changes are made. The changes to the Chrome profile are non-trivial to reverse, and as a representative of Malwarebytes, I would not recommend relying on Malwarebytes to fix those settings. Even if the changes made by the adware were trivial, poking at the contents of undocumented Chrome-related files could potentially cause Chrome-related data loss, so it's not the sort of thing currently done by Malwarebytes for Mac.
Currently, my advice is to completely delete Chrome and all Chrome data files from the computer. Then reinstall a fresh copy of Chrome, and set it up from scratch. If you have Chrome bookmarks you don't want to lose, export those first and import them after reinstalling.
For Safari, there are a variety of techniques being used to change the settings. One is to add a bookmark and change Safari's settings to load "tabs for" that bookmark item at startup. This is easy to miss, since the homepage entry can be left untouched, making it appear that something is still installed if you're not observing carefully.
You need to open the "Terminal" application (use the search functionality at the top-right to find it). Then copy and paste, one by one, the commands from my above post into the terminal prompt, hitting enter after pasting each.
Depends on where you're searching FROM. If you open a new Finder window and look for the search window in the top right of that window, you'll see a list of every item on your hard drive in any way related to the term "Terminal." Among these will be the "black box" icon below, which was mentioned by romaine on Oct 2. Double-click that icon, and the Terminal window opens, where you can type the commands themselves. Then check the results. Hope this simplifies it for you.
Hi! I'm having the same issue with weknow.ac in chrome and safari. I tried do your suggestion of the terminal and this is what happend. The malware is still there and I'm having trouble finding a solution. any suggestions ?
I had this issue for the past like 6 months and did the malwarebytes scans, and even the default boot writes in terminal for my hijacked chrome browser. The we know hijacker writes an additional administrative profile which was the last thing I hadn't removed and none of the scans picked up on. If you've done everything a million times and it still doesn't work I recommend doing this.
Yah, this happens every time I access developer.apple.com but only /forums -- I do appstoreconnect,the top level /account tools, etc all the time on chrome and never see this issue. It really seems scoped to /forums for me.
I have been encountering this issue on Chrome on developer.apple.com and discussions.apple.com for at least a year. True to form, opening up the Developer Tools > Network, the request header was sending a massive amount of cookie data. I cleared only cookies from *.apple.com and was able to access the website again. Only apple.com can set and receive apple.com cookies, right?
Does anyone know what the direct URL for the M1 version of Google Chrome is? I'm using the script that will always download the latest version so I'm trying to update it. Right now it's DownloadURL=" "
Thanks!
On any mac (doesn't have to have the M1 chip), use Chrome to go to the "normal" Chrome download site and select to download the Apple chip version. Once the download starts, cancel the download. Then either "Show All" downloads or open another tab in the same chrome browser and go to: chrome://donloads/
Then for that Apple chip Chrome download you just canceled you should see the URL as in the attached screenshot.
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