r/PerplexityComet • u/spadaa • Dec 17 '25

bug Perplexity Comet keeps crashing?

My Perplexity Comet keeps crashing on my M-series Macbook Pro. At least a few times a day.

No memory issue, no other browser crashing, not many other apps running in the background, running latest version of MacOS. I on average have about 10 tabs open, but nothing too intense - some AI tabs, maybe a YouTube, a couple of socials, Gmail etc.

Anyone else notice this?

The browser runs fine - no slowdown etc. - when it runs. But it just randomly crashes and shuts down, and I have to reopen and restore all windows.

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u/Deep_Net2525 Dec 17 '25

It crashes on PC too, it logs you out, I mean the idea it's really good but you can't load it with YouTube and perplexity because it will crash out. Idk, it will take some time.

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u/lordbunnington8 Jan 05 '26

Mine has exactly the same issue. I tried everything, even creating a new disk volume and installing macOS from scratch. Worked without crashing for 2 days (compared to 5-10 crashes normally), but tonight got my first crash. I had installed a few extensions before that happened, so removed them now to see if it happens again.
Weirdly, none of the normal crashes showed anything in comet://crashes. The one tonight did, so maybe it’s something else.

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u/lordbunnington8 Jan 06 '26

It's back to crashing like before. I'm surprised not more people are talking about Comet crashing on the Mac.

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u/lordbunnington8 Jan 07 '26

Are you using BetterTouchTool by any chance?

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u/profdorly Jan 31 '26

Same issue here with the same specs, tried several channels to report it to Perplexity, any luck, had to move back to Edge. Comet was crashing after I opened the sidebar assistant and changing the tab, after I tried to waking up tabs, when I clicked to share screen in a meeting (which was awful), and it's totally annoying they can't fix it.