Obsidian Keep Crashing when going full screen on Mac

[paoloap]

First, search the help docs and this forum. Maybe your question has been answered! The debugging steps can help, too. Still stuck? Delete this line and proceed.

What I’m trying to do

This is really frustrating. It’s happening constantly without any apparent reason.

I used Obsidian on a much older Windows machine with the same plugins installed and never had issues with Obsidian freezing.

Now, it happens constantly.

Things I have tried

Has anyone encountered the same bug?

[Pch]

It potentially could be useful to add a bit more context to your question :

• What’s your Obsidian version (and what’s the installer version) ?
• Does it also crash with the Sandbox Vault (I mean, if you open the Sandbox Vault and enter fullscreen for that one) ?
• When does the crash occur, more specifically ? (is there a note open when you toggle fullscreen, a canvas, … ?)
• What plugins do you use ?
• Does the crash occur if you’re in Restricted Mode (no plugin, no css snippet and using only Obsidian’s default theme) ?

[paoloap]

Thank you for this detailed debugging roadmap!

The culprit was the Surfing plugin.

I love Obsidian and always try to consolidate my workflow within, but web browsing is not quite there yet.

The idea is great and I hope this plugin can get some maintenance and upgrades.

[Pch]

My pleasure !
Glad to know it helped you find the cause of the crash!

[paoloap]

I hope someone will give an upgrade to Obsidian surfing - or maybe this will be integrated as a core feature.

The ability to surf the web within Obsidian is a real game-changer, it allows to perform so many workflows directly from the tool we all love