Tools menu is ridiculously slow on MacOS
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Description
This issue has become worse and worse with the recent IDE releases. When I first open Arduino IDE and click on the Tools menu, it appears on the screen immediately. However, as soon as the message "Updates available for some of your boards and libraries" it becomes incredibly slow, and it can take up to 20 seconds from I click the Tools menu before it appears. While I'm waiting, the cursor is just a spinning ball.
Is this somehow caused by the boards manager? FYI I'm running Arduino 1.8.10 and MacOS 10.14.5
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the delay in the Arduino IDE 1.x Tools menu on macOS 10.14.5, first with and then without the “Updates available for some of your boards and libraries” message. Start by investigating the interaction with Boards Manager; done means the Tools menu opens without the reported multi-second spinning-ball delay.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, macos
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100