Grey screen what chat gets too long
Open 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 5, 2026 by AndyBuilds
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What version of the IDE extension are you using?
1.114.0 e7fb5e96c0730b9deb70b33781f98e2f35975036 x64
What subscription do you have?
chat gpt plus
Which IDE are you using?
VS Code
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26100.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
When the chat gets too long in codex, opening it in the GUI causes it to become a grey screen after a while as I think its fetching previous chats. After the grey screen appears, it can't be interacted with again until I close vs code, and reopen it.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
I open the codex chat in vs code, start chatting with it to do stuff, and after a while the chat gets too long and grey screens start.
What is the expected behavior?
No grey screen when chat gets too long
Additional information
Very frustrating issue.
2 Comments
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This issue has gone worse , I always have to delete .codex to get rid of ever loading animation in vscode codex , this also happens when there is no chats.