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Beach ball every few minutes on macOS Monterey
Microsoftadamhodge 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.
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-Kelly
92.0.902.67. The only extension I have is NewsGuard.
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.
Think I've fixed this. When I switched over to the Mac firewall it flagged a SyncMate synchronisation app connection (SyncMateService) as unauthorised. Since authorising the connection the beachballing has disappeared (and hasn't reappeared even though I've now flipped back to McAfee). Hopefully problem solved...
