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smaheshbabu
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Aug 02, 2021

Beach ball every few minutes on macOS Monterey

I installed macOS Monterey Version 12.0 Beta on July 24, 2021.   Ever since, I get the beach ball almost every 5 minutes and it lasts 5-10 seconds. It happens all the time but is more likely to hap...
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adamhodge
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Aug 10, 2021
Getting this all the time as well...Official build 92.0.902.67...non enterprise mb pro.
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    Kelly_Y
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    Aug 10, 2021

    adamhodge smaheshbabu Hello!  I can see the team recently released a fix for tab hangs on Mac.  Would you be able to test on a newer build?  Like MS Edge Dev Channel, Download Microsoft Edge Insider Channels.  

     

    If you are still encountering an issue after trying a newer version, please submit diagnostic data through our in-browser feedback tool.   It's under "..." menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback.  Thanks! 

     

    -Kelly

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      adamhodge
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      Aug 12, 2021
      Couple changes...new macos version - 21A5304g. Also I turned off my extensions...no beach ball today.
      92.0.902.67. The only extension I have is NewsGuard.
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        TonyG1155
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        Nov 13, 2021

        adamhodge 

        Do you or others on this thread use McAfee LiveSafe?  I and many others had the beachballing problem when Big Sur came out; the problem was McAfee LiveSafe's firewall - turning it off and switching to the resident macOS firewall got rid of the issue.  McAfee eventually acknowledged it was their problem, but it took several months before they rolled out a fix.  I'm now on Monterey 12.01; a. couple of days ago I started getting beachballing; I tried the obvious "restart" and got a message that McAfee had interrupted the restart process and needed to be quit first (never happened before).  On restart I still had beachballing with McAfee running, so I disabled the firewall and everything works fine.  I contacted McAfee support who told me that they were unaware of any issues, and that my current LiveSafe version is the latest version (4.11.2.0); they'll escalate it.

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      smaheshbabu
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      Aug 10, 2021
      Upgrading to Version 93.0.961.11 (Official build) Beta (x86_64) reduced the occurrence of beachball but did not eliminate it.
      While I used to get beachball every five minutes before, now I get it every 3-4 hours at which point I just need to restart the browser so I can keep using it for another 3-4 hours.

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