VS Code is stuck with infinite loading on Safari v16 and lower

[raphaeldn28]

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It does not matter which file I load or opem, it is stuck with infinite loading

Version: 1.84.0
Commit: d037ac0
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Embedder: codespaces

[Raubzeug]

I have the same issue. I've done some investigations and found out the problem is here

vscode/src/vs/base/common/tfIdf.ts

Line 92 in 7425fbc

const camelParts = word.split(/(?<=[a-z])(?=[A-Z])/g);

. It doest works with Safari < v17 because of error invalid group specifier name.

[rzhao271]

I do have an older macOS VM, but it doesn't seem to be booting right now. My current macOS device is on Safari 17.

@raphaeldn28 @Raubzeug is the issue fixed for either of you?

One way to test is to launch https://insiders.vscode.dev, and then to search just "a" in the Settings editor while having GitHub Copilot Chat disabled or not installed. If the Settings editor is able to finish the search, then the fix worked.

[Raubzeug]

@rzhao271 Hi! I've just checked with Safari 15 and 16 and https://insiders.vscode.dev doest'n work. The problem is here now:

By the way, it works properly with Safari 17.

[rzhao271]

I finally confirmed the unexpected token issue with a VM, but I'm unsure which part of the code it comes from.

[vs-code-engineering]

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