Comment 11 for bug 1409032

Same here as with with Mr. rattskjelke above: I never had any reason to notice gvfsd-smb-browse until I upgraded to 16.04 and noticed my laptop's fans spinning and this stupid process at the top of the list.

Searching with google or DDG for "gvfsd-smb-browse high CPU" reveals that this problem has appeared in the past ( way back in 2010!) and it is not clear what resolved it or whether the user simply became frustrated and stopped using samba or even all of Ubuntu.

At first I tried to uninstall the package that contains it (gvfs-backends) but that would probably break software-center, and other things i want:

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sudo apt-get remove gvfs-backends
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The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  oneconf oneconf-common python-cups python-debtagshw python-oneconf
  python-piston-mini-client python-xapian python3-oneconf
  python3-piston-mini-client software-center-aptdaemon-plugins
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I do not use samba (It's just another half-arsed Microsoft network protocol, designed to not work right on other platforms to compel you to use Windows) or care about it so I did the following:

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sudo mv /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb-browse /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-smb-browse.disabled
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