I am writing to express my significant disappointment and frustration with the performance of Cursor AI version 0.49.6. Despite having upgraded to the Pro version, the application has been consistently hanging and crashing every few minutes, making it completely unusable for my work.
Try downgrading then upgrading to the latest version of cursor - this seems to have sorted the issue for me.
If the issue persists try:
Start by disabling extensions one by one to identify problematic ones
You can check Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+P > “Developer: Toggle Developer Tools”) for any memory-related errors
Clear app data as a last resort (This will delete all your app data, including extensions, themes, snippets and other installation-related data. Please export your profile first to avoid losing this data.)
I’ve traced the issue down to a conflict with one of my extensions. I’ll confirm the exact culprit tomorrow, but given the recent significant updates to chat and chat history features, I’m suspecting it’s likely the SpecStory extension causing this.
Also, if you turn off auto-save w/ SpecStory installed on activation, it would be interesting to know if you experience instant crashes.
We rewrote the entire extractor in SpecStory v0.10.1+ to account for the chat/chat history data updates in Cursor v0.49.X. Depending on how large your state.vscdb is and how much chat history needs to migrate to their v3 format tends to be correlated with the behavor some have experienced.
Hey buddy, I’ll get back to you tomorrow on the above but wanted to quickly reply and say thanks for SpecStory.. I find it invaluable for my day to day. I have extended its feature set a bit, notably with a daily (end of coding ) session feature where it uses the chat history and the cursor rules to see what rules should be added or updated based on the pitfalls during the session. Oddly enough I use cline to work it way through it since it’s pretty solid at acting robotically through things. (One call per rules file)
I’ve been working on another feature that takes the daily SpecStory log + TaskMaster (task.json) and build a daily dev log akin to a scrum note and have it a part of the repo for myself and the dev team.
Anyway, great product and I happy to be able to tell you directly that I appreciate it.