Ever since updating to 0.49.6, Cursor has been insanely slow and freezes upon every request — to the point where I can’t submit a request anymore. I see this eternal green loading bar in the directory area.
Try to delete and resync your index, open a new chat and use a different model (I went from Gemini to Claude). I had same problem and this worked for me.
Update: It keeps reverting back to being broken after a while.
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Cursor has been doing this for the last 4 updates atleast. Starting a new chat resolves it briefly until it happens again then rinse and repeat until they can find out why and get it fixed.
Adding one report to the many – maybe it’s related to longer-context sessions and cache or something, but I’m getting freezes (which eventually go away and the request continues/completes) that last up to ~5 minutes after a chat/request. I can confirm it shouldn’t be a connectivity issue (~1 GBPS speed) or a device-end issue (last year’s high-end Lenovo Legion). I’m working with Gemini Pro 2.5 Max lately, mostly FWIW.