image by Thomas Hawk

On a new MacBook 13″ Aluminum Unibody, I noticed that the whole machine was running kind of slow even though very few apps were in use.

Running top in a Terminal, it seemed like GoogleTalkPlugin was using lots of CPU even though no browsers were running.

The application is actually the Gmail Videochat that folks install to be able see and talk to other Gmail users inside the browser.

Assuming you can live without the videochat, to uninstall it, simply download the dmg from http://mail.google.com/videochat and run the uninstall application that shows up when the dmg is mounted.

Everything runs like a charm afterwards.

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