Grok Bot desktop ships 53 perf fixes: reconnect 60s → 0.7s, downloads 137MB → 0.7MB
XFreeze · x · 2026-09-23
- The Grok Bot desktop app team shipped 53 performance fixes over a few days.
- Key wins: reconnect after a flaky connection 60s → 0.7s; laptop wake 23s → 1s; switching back to Computer view 868ms → 27ms; opening chats with large code blocks 954ms → 228ms; Media tab downloads 137MB → 0.7MB by eliminating repeated downloads.
- Also smoother sidebar animations, fewer jumpy screenshot-heavy chats, and much lower idle memory usage.
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