The new version of Cursor is unbelievably hard to use. I honestly have no idea who was “smart” enough to decide to change the design like this.
I still haven’t been able to find Cursor’s extension/plugin marketplace.
The Opus 4.8 model keeps thinking and talking to itself over and over, even though I did not keep asking it anything.
I used to be able to open multiple windows and write code in parallel, but now I can’t find where to open multiple windows anymore. This design is terrible.
It is extremely laggy.
It often fails to open and just shows a blank white screen.
Hi @598966 Thank you for your forum post and I apologize for the frustration. I’m happy to walk through your questions one by one.
It sounds like you’re using the new Agents View. If you’d like to switch to the Editor IDE view, you can do so with File → Switch to Editor View.
You can find the Extensions Marketplace in the IDE view. Whether it’s available on the left or the right sidebar is dependent on whether you’re on the Agent Layout or the Editor Layout in the IDE. If you’re on the Agent Layout, it will be part of the right side and if you’re in the Editor Layout it will be part of the left sidebar.
Sounds like a model behavior issue, can you try a different model and see if you get the same behavior? If you’re getting excessive thinking and talking to itself over and over I recommend turning the reasoning down lower (e.g. Extra High to Medium or something like that).
You can have multiple Windows open of the IDE view, but the Agents view is limited to one window. However, you can split the one Agents Window into a variety of views to have different combinations of different content open. For example, if you want another chat just click and drag it into the window where you would like to drop it, and you’ll see a blue square pop up. That is the place where the chat will land if you release the mouse.
Feel free to share with us a specific instance or trigger that causes this, and please let us know some system information.
Please let me know what version of Cursor you’re on and how this happens and we can look into it further. Does it happen when launching Cursor from the command line or just clicking on the Cursor app? feel free to launch Cursor from the command line with cursor --classic . and this will make sure that it opens in the IDE view if you prefer that.
