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Netgear Genie unusable on Mac
Hello Folks, Netgear genie is unstable on a Mac (El Capitan). I cannot quit the application once I've finished using it. I have to do a 'Force Quit' to kill the application. Anyone have...
Same problem. Genie doesn't Quit - I have to use Force Quit to stop the Beach Ball of Death. I'm using MacBook Pro Retina (mid '12) and OSX 10.11.13. This has happened ever since I've tried using Genie and just downloaded the latest version, and it still is happening. Not nice!
Genie is a disaster!
It has been updated now on iOS several times since the first post on this thread and it seams it has gone from acceptable to unbelievable bad. The Genie app on my MacBook Pro is also the weirdest app that you can imaging!
On my iPhone 6s with 64GB running 9.3.1 the app prevents my phone from going into standby and creating an extremely HOT phone! What kind of Guiding Light has written that app!!! It can seriously harm your phone! I am really angry about this kind of weird crapp!
On my Macbook Pro it is most likely the same. The (cr) app has a huge impact on energy consumption and it sets you CPU in overdrive! Get rid of this kind of complete obsolete apps!
And the bottomline is that each time you put new firmware on your router, which is often since it is a netgear product written by not too clever programmers, you are forced to download the app, even when you already downloaded it ten times before!