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reilly30006y ago· 2 in thread

I get a beach ball All-the-time with Messages lasting 5-10 seconds. I struggle to imagine that anything it’s doing is that computationally intensive.

Angostura6y ago

I suspect this might be a problem with your installation - if you create a new MacOS user account for testing, does the problem persist? I don't recall Messages every beach-balling for me and I'm not exactly on new hardware.

oarsinsync6y ago

Tangentially, this appears to be the general (and usually, only) troubleshooting step you can do with Apple products.

Yes, creating a new user resolves the problem. Yes, resetting my device to factory settings without restoring from backup resolves the problem.

How do I resolve the problem without deleting my entire history?

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ihuman6y ago· 2 in thread

Really? I thought it was based on old iChat application, since it used to support other IM providers.

saagarjha6y ago

Support for that was ripped out years ago.

ihuman6y ago

I know support for those services is long gone, but I thought it was still based on the same code.

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jakobegger6y ago

Only the bubbles, though. The text input field and the sidebar are standard Cocoa controls (at least that was the case when I last checked).

It's not as bad as a full web app

saagarjha6y ago

It’s still a web view in Catalina as well.

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