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Wade Dorrell
Nov 28, 2022Brass Contributor
107 beachball'n frequently?
Hi folks, Anyone got a track on any issues in Edge 107.0.1418.56 that cause beachballing on macOS Ventura 13.0.1, M1 architecture? I can barely go a few minutes using sites like outlook.live.com ...
congyiwu
Dec 09, 2022Copper Contributor
I was seeing similar hangs at some point after upgrading to Ventura. I think I first noticed it on Edge M106 or so.
I had a hunch that this related to accessibility support, since the last time (> 6 months ago) Edge was hanging a lot, I was testing out yabai, a window management tool that uses the macOS accessibility APIs: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/204
I ended up using Hammerspoon instead of yabai, but that also uses the macOS accessibility APIs, so I tried quitting Hammerspoon, and Edge seemed to stop crashing after. I went through a few Edge/Chrome updates that seemed to maybe fix or reintroduce the hang whenever Hammerspoon was running.
Last night I tried disabling accessibility support in Edge itself and that seemed to also fix the hangs.
See https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/accessibility/
If you quit all Edge instances and run this in Terminal, it disables accessibility you quit all Edge instances again:
open /Applications/Microsoft\ Edge.app --args --disable-renderer-accessibility
Edge and Chrome both got new updates today on my Mac, and I can't repro the hang at all anymore even with accessibility enabled, so the actual bug might be finally fixed now...