Apps that are Chromium or Electron base crashes on Catalina beta 6 (19A536g)

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So I recently updated from beta 5 of Catalina to beta 6 and noticed more than half of my apps will crash after the initial launch, these apps include things like:

  • Brave browser (beta, nightly)
  • Chrome (tried beta as well)
  • Chrome Canary (the same)

Any apps that are electronJS based such as: Spotify, Slack, Atom, VSCode & etc…

I have a hunch that it has something to do with a browser wrapper that can't be set

Already tried and failed:
sudo spctl --master-disable

Also re-installed apps, tried a whole different version and to no avail

is there anything I can do to fix this locally?

Best Answer

Unfortunately, the best you can do is revert to Mojave. This is a bug in AppKit that Apple caused (and must soon fix). It persists in beta 7.

I can feel your pain. I need my Electron apps like VS Code and Insomnia. The bug also affects JetBrains apps like PyCharm and Android Studio (based off IntelliJ).

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