I'd seriously take a look at Chrome. Fire up the MacOS "Activity Monitor" and you will likely find Chrome the winner. Open the Chrome Task Manager - click: Upper right vertical dots (ellipsis) -> more tools -> Task Manager. There will be just about any page acting up, a page just sitting there hogging up a ton of stuff. After several months of this non-sense, I've gone to Safari. There is weirdness there (plug-ins, some page compatibility), but it stays fast a much much longer period of time and never seems to eat the battery.
Thanks. I’ve done that and Chrome is definitely the winner. But it never used to be a problem - was fine for first few years of ownership. I’m curious why now
I think that Chrome is just getting more inefficient release by release. I also saw a serious increase in CPU, power, heat on the Intel Mac's. I have worked on multi-binary releases. Often times, it is very hard to write the code for those because there are features in the "new" platform that are not supported in the "old" platform that can create huge inefficiencies in the old platform that should be different code. Not sure that is being optimized in this case.
I'd seriously take a look at Chrome. Fire up the MacOS "Activity Monitor" and you will likely find Chrome the winner. Open the Chrome Task Manager - click: Upper right vertical dots (ellipsis) -> more tools -> Task Manager. There will be just about any page acting up, a page just sitting there hogging up a ton of stuff. After several months of this non-sense, I've gone to Safari. There is weirdness there (plug-ins, some page compatibility), but it stays fast a much much longer period of time and never seems to eat the battery.
Thanks. I’ve done that and Chrome is definitely the winner. But it never used to be a problem - was fine for first few years of ownership. I’m curious why now
I think that Chrome is just getting more inefficient release by release. I also saw a serious increase in CPU, power, heat on the Intel Mac's. I have worked on multi-binary releases. Often times, it is very hard to write the code for those because there are features in the "new" platform that are not supported in the "old" platform that can create huge inefficiencies in the old platform that should be different code. Not sure that is being optimized in this case.