Cursor 2.0.77 crashes every time it is opened

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Every time I open Cursor, the sqlite3 service goes to 99.9% CPU usage and a few seconds later Cursor crashes. This happens every single time, even if I don’t open any projects.

I’ve tried restarting the Mac but that does not fix the issue.

Tried upgrading to the latest sqlite3 version but didn’t resolve.

The IDE is completely unusable now.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Upgrade to 2.0.77 from an older 2.0.x version
  2. Launch Cursor on a Mac Intel Core i9 with Tahoe 26.1.

Expected Behavior

It doesn’t crash.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.77
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 25.1.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hi @Evooo , please try the following steps to troubleshoot the Cursor crash:

  1. Completely uninstall Cursor 2.0.77 and then reinstall a fresh copy.
  2. Launch Cursor without opening any project to check if it still crashes.
  3. Disable or remove any extensions or plugins that could impact sqlite3 or Cursor startup. with cursor --disable-extensions
  4. Check for and apply any pending macOS updates.
  5. If possible, try reverting back to your previous Cursor version (before 2.0.77) to see if the issue persists.
  6. Collect and share any Cursor logs or crash reports that mention sqlite3 or startup errors.

Let me know how these go, and we can take it from there.

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  1. Didn’t help
  2. Crashes without any projects open
  3. This fixed it so I steadily disabled extensions until I found the culprit was the Giga AI extension. Reached out to the original dev to resolve the instability.
  4. Already up-to-date
  5. Unfortunately Cursor does not currently publish patch version numbers to download…only minor and major, so reverting to 2.0.76 wasn’t possible.
  6. Cursor was crashing silently without any crash reports.
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Same crash here, so i just can’t work

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During the uninstallation of Cursor on Windows, the %appdata% folder is not removed. You have to delete it manually. To fully reinstall the application, uninstall it, remove the folder, and then install it again. I’m not sure how it works on macOS.