Switching chat threads is taking 10 seconds
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 21, 2026 by orenbahari Closed Mar 21, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Codex 26.313.41514
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64 (WSL)
What issue are you seeing?
It takes 10 seconds now to go between chat threads, making me want to switch to a more performant app. This issue seems to have happened progressively, perhaps as I have more chat threads or because of something your recently changed. It could also be slow look up from Codex windows app to the wsl system, having to do a complex search command.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019d109d-b3a8-72a2-9782-1e1eb0ba68fc
- Open Codex App on Windows (WSL agent)
- Click one thread
- Wait 10 seconds
- Click another thread
What is the expected behavior?
It should take so long to load a chat. If anything keep the current slice fast access and the load the tool calls (in between steps). I would even be okay with a loading indicator, as being stuck on the old chat and getting no response for your click is bad software.
Additional information
_No response_
3 Comments
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wait its actually much more likely to be: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/14070
I'm also using codex GUI on win11 and the UI is becoming unbearably laggy and unusable (i'm talking about even minutes to switch to another thread).
My laptop is new and resourceful, so I exclude hardware limitations.