Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by mikamika83 » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 12:45 AM UTC

Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe
avarayr.github.io

Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

#2

Post by bigyabai » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 12:50 AM UTC

Surely this will shame them into supporting MacOS better and not push developers towards making their desktop webapp a website.

Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by nikolay » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 1:05 AM UTC

There's a better way - you can find all apps you really should care about, i.e., the ones you have installed locally - run the last script in a comment of the Gist [0].

Update: It appears that the author of shamelectron was influenced by the same Gist [1].

[0]: https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1...

[1]: https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1...

Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by nikolay » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 1:19 AM UTC

nikolay wrote: post #3

There's a better way - you can find all apps you really should care about, i.e., the ones you have installed locally - run the last script in a comment of the Gist [0]. Update: It appears that the author of shamelectron was influenced by the same Gist [1]. [0]: https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1... [1]: https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1...

Some notable apps without fixes (which I have installed locally):

* 1Password.app

* Bruno.app

* Claude.app (oh noes!)

* Cursor.app

* Docker.app

* Dropbox Dash.app

* Dropbox.app

* Element.app

* GitKraken.app

* Graphite.app

* HEY.app (shame on DHH!)

* Keeper Password Manager.app (it's not just 1Password)

* Keybase.app

* Kiro.app (come on, AWS!)

* Ledger Live.app (crypto seems to lag behind Web 2.0 still!)

* Loom.app

* Notion Calendar.app

* Notion Mail.app

* Notion.app

* Pocket Casts.app

* Podman Desktop.app

* Proton Mail.app

* Proton Pass.app (all major password manager apps are in trouble)

* Redis Insight.app

* Sculptor.app

* Simplenote.app (shame on photomatt!)

* Texts.app (although it's possibly now replaced by Beeper)

* Tonkeeper.app

* Windsurf - Next.app

* WorkFlowy.app

* itch.app

* krisp.app

Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by ranger_danger » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 1:59 AM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #2

Surely this will shame them into supporting MacOS better and not push developers towards making their desktop webapp a website.

The issue is already fixed upstream in electron, it was due to the overriding of an internal/undocumented system function behaving differently by the nature of just being overridden at all (the function body was empty).

Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 2:09 AM UTC

nikolay wrote: post #4

nikolay wrote: post #3

There's a better way - you can find all apps you really should care about, i.e., the ones you have installed locally - run the last script in a comment of the Gist [0]. Update: It appears that the author of shamelectron was influenced by the same Gist [1]. [0]: https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1... [1]: https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1...

Some notable apps without fixes (which I have installed locally): * 1Password.app * Bruno.app * Claude.app (oh noes!) * Cursor.app * Docker.app * Dropbox Dash.app * Dropbox.app * Element.app * GitKraken.app * Graphite.app * HEY.app (shame on DHH!) * Keeper Password Manager.app (it's not just 1Password) * Keybase.app * Kiro.app (come on, AWS!) * Ledger Live.app (crypto seems to lag behind Web 2.0 still!) * Loom.app *…

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Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by nozzlegear » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 2:11 AM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #2

Surely this will shame them into supporting MacOS better and not push developers towards making their desktop webapp a website.

Either solution is an improvement over the laggy electron app. Using Safari's web app feature on discord's website feels markedly better than trying to use their "native" app.

Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by Fnoord » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 2:13 AM UTC

How does the Electron alternative Tauri perform on macOS 26 Tahoe?

Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by mikamika83 » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 2:33 AM UTC

Fnoord wrote: post #8

How does the Electron alternative Tauri perform on macOS 26 Tahoe?

No issues. There was a very specific bug in electron that's now fixed.. now we just wait until companies bump the electron versions

Re: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

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Post by jen20 » Sat, Oct 04, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

nikolay wrote: post #4

nikolay wrote: post #3

There's a better way - you can find all apps you really should care about, i.e., the ones you have installed locally - run the last script in a comment of the Gist [0]. Update: It appears that the author of shamelectron was influenced by the same Gist [1]. [0]: https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1... [1]: https://gist.github.com/tkafka/e3eb63a5ec448e9be6701bfd1f1b1...

Some notable apps without fixes (which I have installed locally): * 1Password.app * Bruno.app * Claude.app (oh noes!) * Cursor.app * Docker.app * Dropbox Dash.app * Dropbox.app * Element.app * GitKraken.app * Graphite.app * HEY.app (shame on DHH!) * Keeper Password Manager.app (it's not just 1Password) * Keybase.app * Kiro.app (come on, AWS!) * Ledger Live.app (crypto seems to lag behind Web 2.0 still!) * Loom.app *…

The number of major companies doing half-assed javascript bullshit instead of proper native macOS apps is ridiculous. This did remind me to go cancel 1Password though, something I'd been meaning to do since they switched _to_ electron...