[Bug]: Electron Apps Causing System-Wide Lag on macOS Tahoe #2545

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opened 2026-02-28 20:18:11 -06:00 by GiteaMirror · 3 comments
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Originally created by @Ptujec on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025).

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You can read here about it: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/09/30/electron-apps-causing-system-wide-lag-on-tahoe/

Updating Electron to 38.2.0 should solve the issue.

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Originally created by @Ptujec on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025). ### Verified issue does not already exist? - [x] I have searched and found no existing issue ### What happened? You can read here about it: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/09/30/electron-apps-causing-system-wide-lag-on-tahoe/ Updating Electron to 38.2.0 should solve the issue. ### How can we reproduce the issue? How can we reproduce the issue? ### Where are you hosting Actual? None ### What browsers are you seeing the problem on? _No response_ ### Operating System None
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@Ptujec commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025):

Here is a list of fixed versions: https://github.com/tkafka/detect-electron-apps-on-mac/

@Ptujec commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025): Here is a list of fixed versions: https://github.com/tkafka/detect-electron-apps-on-mac/
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@matt-fidd commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025):

cc @MikesGlitch I'm happy to do dependency updates but electron seems to be locked to a specific version, is there a reason it's locked or was it just to stop accidental updates?

@matt-fidd commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025): cc @MikesGlitch I'm happy to do dependency updates but electron seems to be locked to a specific version, is there a reason it's locked or was it just to stop accidental updates?
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@MikesGlitch commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025):

cc @MikesGlitch I'm happy to do dependency updates but electron seems to be locked to a specific version, is there a reason it's locked or was it just to stop accidental updated?

It should be safe to go up minor version but 38.0.0 to 38.2.0 will need to be tested on all the operating systems unfortunately. There have been times where we've upgraded and some things have broken on mac but not on linux/windows etc.

The main areas of testing are:

  • budget export
  • running the sync server

Happy for you to bump the version, I can help test it.

@MikesGlitch commented on GitHub (Oct 16, 2025): > cc [@MikesGlitch](https://github.com/MikesGlitch) I'm happy to do dependency updates but electron seems to be locked to a specific version, is there a reason it's locked or was it just to stop accidental updated? It should be safe to go up minor version but 38.0.0 to 38.2.0 will need to be tested on all the operating systems unfortunately. There have been times where we've upgraded and some things have broken on mac but not on linux/windows etc. The main areas of testing are: - budget export - running the sync server Happy for you to bump the version, I can help test it.
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Reference: github-starred/actual#2545