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Scotrix

4 months ago

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The first few seconds/minutes I felt the same but it was fine quite fast. I think the typical spotlight reindexing was the culprit.

psmyrdek

4 months ago

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In my case it's consistently poor web experience. Chrome scrolling and rendering is lagging so hard that it's hard to believe. The same page on Safari works flawlessly.

adnanshrr

3 months ago

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found a solution yet?

psmyrdek

3 months ago

Turns out that Chrome was in this weird "pre-update" state - by moving to the most recent version everything went back to normal.

robthebrew

4 months ago

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Mac version? SSD? Any large update requires a bit of housekeeping (eg Spotlight)

psmyrdek

4 months ago

M4 Max

omgsean

3 months ago

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Yes it feels awful to me. Seems like every Chromium and Electron app is sluggish and choppy, and as someone who uses Brave, VSCode, and Slack all day I am straight up not having a good time. Hopefully it gets resolved soon. This is on an M1 MBP Pro with 32GB ram.

mikamika83

3 months ago

there's a workaround for Electron apps on MacOS Tahoe 26 - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311#issuecomme...

boars_tiffs

4 months ago

there are some glitches here and there yes, visual and otherwise, across various parts of the system.

gaming is somewhat impacted too; i noticed strange glyphs playing disco elysium

some memory leaks too apparently but I didn't encounter this first hand.

battery life is impacted but idk by how much or if it's to any significance, time will tell.

mikamika83

3 months ago

there's a workaround for Electron apps on MacOS Tahoe 26 - https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311#issuecomme...

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