Google AI Studio + Gemini --> UNBEARABLE lags and slowness

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AI Studio is once again to slow to be of use. Anyone else?

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YES, UNBEARABLY SLOW. Google should have a hard look at how it designs these dom things. This is ridiculous for a frontier company.

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Even the typing is extremely slow. It looks like lot of network calls are made to ā€œcountTokensā€ on every single keyboard input.

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Hi, is there any way to disable these calls through dev console? Cant type anything past 10 messages in convo, tab just freesing completely :frowning:

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Chromeā€™s task manager shows more than 100% CPU usage on any reasonably large conversation now, and itā€™s basically unusable once you approach the 100k token mark as far as I can tell.

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Has anyone found a solution? Iā€™m using Gemini 2.5, and the lag is unbearable. It takes around 10 minutes just to open the chat, and once itā€™s open, every letter I type takes about 2 minutes to appear. Starting a new prompt doesnā€™t help either. Iā€™m only at around 40k used tokens. Google, please fix thisā€”itā€™s completely unusable

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I am also experiencing significant difficulties. I am unable to access any chat functions. I have tried various browsers (including Chrome) to no avail. Clearing browsing data and using incognito mode have yielded no results. I initially suspected a problem with my machine, but that does not appear to be the case, as other AI platforms are functioning normally. Several of my projects are now stalled.

I am even struggling to input commands. For urgent matters, I have resorted to typing into Notepad and then copying the text into the prompt.

In short, nothing is working. Everything is completely frozen.

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Today, April 2, 2025, at 2:15 AM GMT+1, the issue returned with Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp.

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I am so glad that I am not alone! Google API has become so slow these days that is even unbearable. Everytime I have to make a new prompt but it isnā€™t enough to even satisfy. I have prompts that I want to complete or still work on!

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Iā€™m also experiencing this problem. Due to lag this is really unusable.

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If this helps in any way.

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Memory doesnā€™t seem to be that clogged up, but when I type in the conversation, it increases my CPU usage in that tab to at least 11%. 236k tokens, was not an issue over 1 week ago for me until now.

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Iā€™m facing the same problem with chrome as well as with firefox

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I tried it with Arc, Firefox, and Chrome. No differences.

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Yeah, same thing for me. I did see that when the text renders properly, the website hangs (at least for me), but before that, itā€™s not too laggy and is usable, like it was a few days ago.

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I think CPU usage is the smoking gun. I tried AI Studio and about 30k tokens on iPad using Safari, and the device got too hot to touch (=excessive CPU usage).

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any new news , i cant find the overlay scrillbar option in flags , and the ai studio page is unusable , i have to write the prompt outside and copy and past it , and the back up to drive is lagging and not working at all ā€¦etc

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That has always been it imo but a few days ago 30K tokens wouldnā€™t make the whole website hang but now it can.
Wish there was occlusion culling for text :joy:

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Deleting past messages in the chat helped me.

  1. open Inspect (F12)
  2. delete the old chat bubbles (chat bubbles that are my messages and the aiā€™s replies).
    The beginning of this element looks something like this:

ms-chat-turn _ngcontent-ng-c9999999999=ā€œā€ _nghost-ng-c9999999999=ā€œā€ class=ā€œng-star-insertedā€

  1. find it, click on the top one and hold down backspace

Possibly lagging because of:

!----

For some reason, there are about 3500 of these things in each bubble.

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To me, disabling auto-save to Google drive remove much of the lag. Once auto-save is on lag becomes unbearable.

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I have this solution: Its not a browser prblm,it happens when conversation is too long, the website become laggy and slow, its a google issue, so my solution is You go to the file saved in your Google Drive automatically (named after your conversation), download it, then edit it and save it as a .txt file. After that, upload it to a new conversation in Google AI Studio. It contains all the context, and now you have a lag-free text field.

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