Notion MCP opened 50 auth tabs a day and crashed a user's Mac
menhguin · x · 2026-09-12
A user reports their Mac nearly crashing after an agent filled the entire drive; another replies with a more specific failure: the Notion MCP server was opening around 50 OAuth authentication tabs a day until the system crashed. A real-world reminder of how fragile long-running agent + MCP auth flows can be.
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