Prevent webpages freezing from affecting rest of the browser
Vlad I've just updated to 112.5, still occurs, here is a video. I get the beachball cursor in the Orion windows after loading the URL but the recording does not show this. Both Orion windows totally freeze and I cannot switch tabs, though I can switch/focus each window
Orion 0.99.112.5-rc (WebKit 613.1.12)
macOS Version 12.2 (Build 21D49)
MacBookPro18,3
Ever since I updated to 0.99.113.2-beta, I've been getting random freezing. It affects the whole browser, and I'm not sure what triggers it. This wasn't happening when I was one 0.99.113.1-beta. I'm sorry I can't tell you how to reproduce it. Is there a way for me to downgrade to 0.99.113.1-beta?
This happens for me on media-heavy sites like TikTok's web interface
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We have not been able to reproduce this. One thing to try is to disable any extensions you may have.
b3noit Did it happen to you on 0.99.113.1-beta (the previous version).
TheAllegedGenius For a few versions IIRC, but also haven't attempted to reproduce without extensions disabled as Vlad indicated
I am also getting random freezing that occurs very regularly. It happens on all sorts of sites (Gmail, GitHub, Chrome Extensions page). I have done a clean install and this happens with and without extensions installed.
Version 0.99.113.2-beta (WebKit 613.1.12)
macOS 12.3 (M1)
P.S. This same Orion version works fine on another Mac (also 12.3 with an M1).
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Also getting random hickups and freezing with 0.99.113.2-beta on M1. Suspect it’s coming from longer use/multiple open tabs for Github issue pages, since I don’t have anything else open than the intranet site I’m working on, which is a quite simple Rails app which only uses jQuery and Rails-ujs. When looking at Activity Monitor, Orion is working at 60-90% and it seems that the busy thread is the main thread since typing is slow and jittery.
I, too, have been experiencing random freezes. On Version 0.99.113.2-beta (WebKit 613.1.12) and the previous version. (M1 MBP, macOS 12.2.1)
I can't say with any authority if there is a pattern to why it happens or when it happens, but along with the Apple mouse scrolling issue, together these issues are making the Orion experience too chaotic at the moment. Too nascent to use as a browser just yet.
@Electronic_Cost I'm interested in one of your comments. You have 2 M1 Macs with identical set ups (same version of Orion and same version of macOS) and Orion is fine on one Mac, but freezes on the other. Is that so?
How can that be so? There has to be some difference i.e. screen size, amount of ram, connected peripherals etc.) Can you go into more detail, please?
Just experienced additional hang ups while downloading bigger videos files. At the same time I’m copying lots of files from an external SSD, so the internal SSD is quite busy. Could this be a problem with file reads blocking main thread? There was a noticeable hang when opening downloads popover.
FYI, Just experienced this while working with huge Google Sheets.
It occurred almost every time I work with Google Sheets.
While there seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence, it is not really helpful as we need exact steps to reproduce the problem in order to debug and hopefully fix it.