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cortig
Explorer | Level 4
3 months ago
Solved

Electron framework in the desktop app leading to MacOS Tahoe slowdowns

Application Affected Dropbox Device Mac Operating System/Browser (if using the web) macOS 26 Dropbox App Version (if using the app) 234.3.5480 Question or Issue Recent discussi...
desktop
Mac
  • Neal's avatar
    Neal
    2 months ago

    Hi everyone! 

    Thank you for your patience, ir's much appreciated.

    I can confirm that a fix for this issue is now live in our most up to date stable build, 235.4.5905.

    Can you all try updating and then test your performance and letting me know how you get on?

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Neal
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2 months ago

Hi everyone! 

Thank you for your patience, ir's much appreciated.

I can confirm that a fix for this issue is now live in our most up to date stable build, 235.4.5905.

Can you all try updating and then test your performance and letting me know how you get on?

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postnumbers
Helpful | Level 5
2 months ago

Hi Neal,

Thanks for responding. I don't believe that 235.4.5905 fixes the issue.

Looking forward to the fix.

  • Neal's avatar
    Neal
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    2 months ago

    Hi postnumbers​,

    Thanks for responding! I just wanted to clear something up. It looks like you're checking this using Furbo.

    That tool looks up what version of Electron we're using and infers from the version that our app will cause the Tahoe performance issue, but we patched our Electron fork to address the issue, so even though we're on an older version we won't actually cause the performance regression.

    Unfortunately some detection tools only look at the Electron version. The "Shamelectron" website actually looks at the contents of the app, for the specific piece of code that causes the issue, which is why it marks Dropbox as OK

    If you check on https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/ you'll see that we have in fact fixed this issue.

    However if you find that stopping & running Dropbox does impact your performance that is a different story and please let me know if this is the case.

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