Interactive – squared

Google Chrome for Mac has arrived (albeit in Beta form).

I’m delighted to be using Chrome again … but unfortunately it does seem to have some issues re resource usage when it comes to streaming music

Sometimes – though not always – after listening to streaming musing on lastfm for half an hour or so I find the mac goes sluggish, to the point of noticeable delays between pressing keys and seeing the text appear. Sure enough, Activity Monitor shows something is amiss: a Google Chrome Helper is taking >100% CPU and >600 MB of memory; closing the lastfm window returns everything to normal levels and the machine is responsive again.

Oh dear. A Google Chrome helper gone awry.