The app editor constantly crashes for me - albeit I am driving it hard.
It crashes after about 3-4 hours of solid work - it crashes because the browser memory gets full and then chrome kills the tab.
Bubble editor is extremely heavy on browser memory - the tabs can often get to several gbs in memory usage. Even on a fresh load they jump up to around 800mbs.
I find bubble crashes most often after I do a lot of:
jumping between pages and reuseable elements
searching for things
copy and pasting
These tasks seem to be very memory heavy and reliably crash the app. Iāve reached out to bubble support several times regarding this and they donāt have a solution.
So I put it to you? What do you do to help reduce browser tab crashes from bubble?
FYI - I know it is bubble that is the issue here as my laptop is i9, 32gb ram, 8gb dedicated graphics and a heavy duty gaming laptop with the latest graphics card (RTX).
The only solution Iāve been able to come up with is to purposely force the crash when I find bubble getting slow - I quickly refresh several bubble tabs to force the crash.
Iāll try the hard refresh shortcut method. I have tried chrome plugins to do this āautomaticallyā every X hours but they donāt seem to help much.
I was using bravo browser (chrome based and apparently optimized) but it has the same issues even with no extensions. I only have the issue with bubble editor tab - every other tab is fine and never crashes.
Could you, just for fun, try using a default install of Edge or Firefox? If Bravo is chromium based then it should also happen on Edge but thereās more to browsers than the rendering engine.
I would recommend trying another browser too. I had an issue (Is the Bubble editor crashing when choosing icons for anyone else...?) that was related to a chromium version that Arc was using ā never understood why, but during the next Arc update it was fixed, so it def seemed like a browser issue.
The weird thing was that support tried to replicate even on Arc but couldnāt reproduce.
And Iām on a MBP M1 Max 64GB on RAM. I also feel like Chrome in general eats at your RAM
Around 5 years ago, the editor kept crashing for me, until I came to find out that building features as reusable elements and then placing them onto the page makes the editor less likely to crash. I rarely have the editor crash now, and usually if it does it is when bubble is having issues.
This is for a very large app - an enterprise app with a dozen+ micro apps in it. I use reuseables a lot - I have 100-200 in this app plus 50-100 pages. The database is huge and very complex likely more than 1000 fields over 100-200 tables (guestimate).
Recently Iāve been using āclear cacheā chrome plugin to hard reset the tabs whenever I notice the editor getting a bit laggy - usually after 2-3 hours of dev. This seems to be working so Iāll keep up with this method.
I was just about to post that Iāve found this plugin to be effective. I activate it every time I change tabs and havenāt experienced any editor lag since using it, pretty amazing difference.
My last laptop had 64gb ram and had the same issue - I checked the logs and it never used more than 30% so when I upgraded my laptop I got a 32gb one and the performance has been the same.
The issue is chrome/bubble not clearing cache in browser (browser cache) not computer ram. Itās an issue in that chrome has a limit on browser cache and bubble continuously hits it.
