[JetBrains] Sidebar panel frequently freezes across all OS'

[bdavj]

Before submitting your bug report

• I've tried using the "Ask AI" feature on the Continue docs site to see if the docs have an answer
• I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

- OS:
- Continue version:1.0.46, has affected many previous versions
- IDE version:  IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2.1 (Ultimate Edition), has affected many previous versions
- Model: Claude, but any.

Description

IntelliJ crashes about 3-4 times a day on a set of Mac / PC endpoints.

Window in IJ freezes, like so:

No keyboard / mouse input to Continue until IJ is restarted fully (not just individual window)

To reproduce

No response

Log output

No log output

[bdavj]

@sestinj / @RomneyDa - This seems to have been affecting quite a lot of people for some time. Any ideas what might be causing this? Persists across windows / mac / WSL-g

[Hakenadu]

My Team is also massively affected by this on Windows

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2.3 (Ultimate Edition)
-- but also on various other versions

Continue 1.0.46
-- but also on previous versions

Windows 11 (Build 22631.5909)

[pedroll]

Restarting ide about 20 times in a day:
PhpStorm 2025.2.3 macOs 15.7
ome times hangs in minutes and some times working hours without issues

[RomneyDa]

@bdavj @Hakenadu @pedroll thank for reporting this. It does seem to be affecting many users.
Could you provider more details as to when and how it happens? Does it gradually get slower? Does it suddenly lock up a few times a day? Does it only happen when using e.g. autocomplete or chat?

[RomneyDa]

Any details helping us debug this would be greatly appreciated!

[bdavj]

Hi @RomneyDa - it's often when I'm not using it - I'll come back to
It and UI elements will be the wrong size, or missing, and it's not responding to any input. I'd say at lease 3x a day, regardless of how much or little it's used.

[Hakenadu]

@RomneyDa Thank you for looking into this issue. At the moment, it causes many of our users to switch from IntelliJ to VSCode just to use the agent mode, before returning to IntelliJ to continue their work.

at this very moment my IDE looks like this (versions as mentioned in my previous message)

However, I have also experienced the IDE freezing in other UI states. It feels as if a UI thread is simply hanging.

There is nothing relevant in core.log and nothing in prompt.log at the time the issues occur.

There are some IntelliJ logs however that occurred before that could be related to this behaviour:

this one

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot read field "isNull" because "robj" is null at jcef/com.jetbrains.cef.remote.router.RemoteMessageRouterImpl.create(RemoteMessageRouterImpl.java:38) at jcef/com.jetbrains.cef.remote.router.RemoteMessageRouter.lambda$new$4(RemoteMessageRouter.java:65) at jcef/com.jetbrains.cef.remote.CefServer.onConnected(CefServer.java:122) at jcef/com.jetbrains.cef.remote.router.RemoteMessageRouter.<init>(RemoteMessageRouter.java:63) at jcef/org.cef.browser.CefMessageRouter.create(CefMessageRouter.java:219) at jcef/org.cef.browser.CefMessageRouter.create(CefMessageRouter.java:203) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefApp.createMessageRouter(JBCefApp.java:503) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefJSQuery$JSQueryFunc.<init>(JBCefJSQuery.java:246) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefJSQuery$JSQueryFunc.<init>(JBCefJSQuery.java:236) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefJSQuery.lambda$create$0(JBCefJSQuery.java:56) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefJSQuery.create(JBCefJSQuery.java:70) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.createQueryWithinScope(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:167) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.createResultHandlerQueryWithinScope(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:152) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.invoke(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:135) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCallKt.executeJavaScriptAsync(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:58) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.browser.ContinueBrowser.sendToWebview(ContinueBrowser.kt:88) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:60) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.access$handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:17) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.process.ContinueProcessHandler$1.invokeSuspend(ContinueProcessHandler.kt:33) at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33) at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:100) at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.SoftLimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(SoftLimitedDispatcher.kt:130) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:89) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler.runSafely(CoroutineScheduler.kt:613) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.executeTask(CoroutineScheduler.kt:1183) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.runWorker(CoroutineScheduler.kt:778) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:765)

and this one

2025-10-14 10:40:34,175 [5473396] WARN - #c.i.u.j.JBCefClient - JavaScript query pool is over [size: 200] java.lang.Throwable at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefClient$JSQueryPool.useFreeSlot(JBCefClient.java:194) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefJSQuery.create(JBCefJSQuery.java:63) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.createQueryWithinScope(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:167) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.createResultHandlerQueryWithinScope(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:152) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.invoke(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:135) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCallKt.executeJavaScriptAsync(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:58) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.browser.ContinueBrowser.sendToWebview(ContinueBrowser.kt:88) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:60) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.access$handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:17) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.process.ContinueProcessHandler$1.invokeSuspend(ContinueProcessHandler.kt:33) at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33) at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:100) at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.SoftLimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(SoftLimitedDispatcher.kt:130) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:89) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler.runSafely(CoroutineScheduler.kt:613) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.executeTask(CoroutineScheduler.kt:1183) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.runWorker(CoroutineScheduler.kt:778) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:765) 2025-10-14 10:40:34,176 [5473397] WARN - #c.i.u.j.JBCefJSQuery - Set the property JBCefClient.Properties.JS_QUERY_POOL_SIZE to use JBCefJSQuery after the browser has been created java.lang.IllegalStateException at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefJSQuery.create(JBCefJSQuery.java:66) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.createQueryWithinScope(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:167) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.createResultHandlerQueryWithinScope(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:152) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.invoke(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:135) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCallKt.executeJavaScriptAsync(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:58) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.browser.ContinueBrowser.sendToWebview(ContinueBrowser.kt:88) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:60) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.access$handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:17) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.process.ContinueProcessHandler$1.invokeSuspend(ContinueProcessHandler.kt:33) at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33) at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:100) at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.SoftLimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(SoftLimitedDispatcher.kt:130) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:89) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler.runSafely(CoroutineScheduler.kt:613) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.executeTask(CoroutineScheduler.kt:1183) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.runWorker(CoroutineScheduler.kt:778) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:765)

I'll take a look in the logfiles again on the next crash

[Hakenadu]

@RomneyDa already crashed again

I opened the chat window, let the IDE running in the background for some time and this is the result:

which looks totally fine on the screenshot but none of the controls are clickable the chat window is completely unresponsive.

again nothing interesting in the continue logs but in the intellij logs i can find the following error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to execute the requested JS expression. The related JCEF browser in not initialized. at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.invoke(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:113) at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCallKt.executeJavaScriptAsync(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:58) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.browser.ContinueBrowser.sendToWebview(ContinueBrowser.kt:88) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:60) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.access$handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:17) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41) at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.process.ContinueProcessHandler$1.invokeSuspend(ContinueProcessHandler.kt:33) at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33) at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:100) at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.SoftLimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(SoftLimitedDispatcher.kt:130) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:89) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler.runSafely(CoroutineScheduler.kt:613) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.executeTask(CoroutineScheduler.kt:1183) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.runWorker(CoroutineScheduler.kt:778) at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:765)

[Hakenadu]

@RomneyDa I can reproduce the error on my device.

Case 1

13:23 Start IntelliJ with Continue Chat Window -> minimize IntelliJ with Chat Window opened
13:26 Maximize IntelliJ again -> Continue Chat is frozen

2025-10-14 13:23:10,374 [  12206]   INFO - STDERR - JCEF_I(23:10:373): Found free tcp-port 6188 for server.
2025-10-14 13:23:10,374 [  12206]   INFO - STDERR - JCEF_I(23:10:374): Found free tcp-port 6189 for java-handlers.
2025-10-14 13:23:10,389 [  12221]   INFO - STDERR - JCEF_V(23:10:385): Created CefServer instance. Transport port=6188 (backward port=6189). Params:
2025-10-14 13:23:10,389 [  12221]   INFO - STDERR - [--disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess, --disable-gpu-process-crash-limit, --proxy-server=censored, --disable-component-update, --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required]| log_file=C:\Users\censored\AppData\Local\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2025.2\log\jcef_1548.log, log_severity=LOGSEVERITY_DISABLE
2025-10-14 13:23:10,432 [  12264]   WARN - ContinueBrowser - Failed to execute the requested JS expression. The related JCEF browser in not initialized.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to execute the requested JS expression. The related JCEF browser in not initialized.
	at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.invoke(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:113)
	at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCallKt.executeJavaScriptAsync(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:58)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.browser.ContinueBrowser.sendToWebview(ContinueBrowser.kt:88)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:60)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.access$handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:17)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.process.ContinueProcessHandler$1.invokeSuspend(ContinueProcessHandler.kt:33)
	at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:100)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.SoftLimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(SoftLimitedDispatcher.kt:130)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:89)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler.runSafely(CoroutineScheduler.kt:613)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.executeTask(CoroutineScheduler.kt:1183)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.runWorker(CoroutineScheduler.kt:778)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:765)

Case 2

13:30 Start IntelliJ with Continue Chat Window -> minimize IntelliJ with Chat Window opened
13:33 Maximize IntelliJ again -> Continue Chat is frozen

2025-10-14 13:30:16,080 [  11457]   WARN - ContinueBrowser - Failed to execute the requested JS expression. The related JCEF browser in not initialized.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to execute the requested JS expression. The related JCEF browser in not initialized.
	at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCall.invoke(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:113)
	at com.intellij.ui.jcef.JBCefBrowserJsCallKt.executeJavaScriptAsync(JBCefBrowserJsCall.kt:58)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.browser.ContinueBrowser.sendToWebview(ContinueBrowser.kt:88)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:60)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger.access$handleMessage(CoreMessenger.kt:17)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.CoreMessenger$startContinueProcess$1.invoke(CoreMessenger.kt:41)
	at com.github.continuedev.continueintellijextension.continue.process.ContinueProcessHandler$1.invokeSuspend(ContinueProcessHandler.kt:33)
	at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:100)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.SoftLimitedDispatcher$Worker.run(SoftLimitedDispatcher.kt:130)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:89)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler.runSafely(CoroutineScheduler.kt:613)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.executeTask(CoroutineScheduler.kt:1183)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.runWorker(CoroutineScheduler.kt:778)
	at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:765)

so this could be related to IntelliJ being minimized (even for a short time)

I also noticed another error in the logs on both occasions. It appears to be related to a group policy on my device. While I believe this issue may not be connected, I’m including it here just in case it’s relevant.

org.jvnet.winp.WinpException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\JetBrains\IntelliJIdea2025.2\tmp\sendctrlc.x64.B02191CB70385B094C410A8C27775ABA.exe": CreateProcess error=1260, Dieses Programm wurde durch eine Gruppenrichtlinie geblockt. Wenden Sie sich an den Systemadministrator, um weitere Informationen zu erhalten
	at org.jvnet.winp.CtrlCSender.sendCtrlC(CtrlCSender.java:21)
	at org.jvnet.winp.Native.sendCtrlC(Native.java:105)
	at org.jvnet.winp.WinProcess.sendCtrlC(WinProcess.java:86)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.LocalProcessServiceImpl.sendWinProcessCtrlC(LocalProcessServiceImpl.kt:77)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.LocalProcessServiceImpl.sendWinProcessCtrlC(LocalProcessServiceImpl.kt:69)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.WinProcessTerminator.terminateWinProcessGracefully$lambda$0(WinProcessTerminator.kt:30)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.WinProcessTerminator.terminateWinProcessGracefully(WinProcessTerminator.kt:48)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.WinProcessTerminator.terminateWinProcessGracefully$default(WinProcessTerminator.kt:26)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.WinProcessTerminator.terminateWinProcessGracefully(WinProcessTerminator.kt)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.KillableProcessHandler.destroyProcessGracefully(KillableProcessHandler.java:181)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.KillableProcessHandler.doDestroyProcess(KillableProcessHandler.java:123)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.KillableProcessHandler.destroyProcessImpl(KillableProcessHandler.java:111)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.ProcessHandler.lambda$destroyProcess$0(ProcessHandler.java:127)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.ProcessHandler$TasksRunner.execute(ProcessHandler.java:325)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.ProcessHandler.destroyProcess(ProcessHandler.java:124)
	at com.intellij.execution.process.ScriptRunnerUtil.terminateProcessHandler(ScriptRunnerUtil.java:244)
	at com.intellij.lang.javascript.service.JSLanguageServiceExecutorImpl.doDispose$lambda$7$lambda$6$lambda$4(JSLanguageServiceExecutorImpl.kt:303)
	at com.intellij.lang.javascript.service.JSLanguageServiceTracerUtilKt.withServiceTraceSpan(JSLanguageServiceTracerUtil.kt:42)
	at com.intellij.lang.javascript.service.JSLanguageServiceTracerUtilKt.withServiceTraceSpan$default(JSLanguageServiceTracerUtil.kt:39)
	at com.intellij.lang.javascript.service.JSLanguageServiceExecutorImpl.doDispose$lambda$7(JSLanguageServiceExecutorImpl.kt:302)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$UniRun.tryFire(CompletableFuture.java:787)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture$Completion.run(CompletableFuture.java:482)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ChildContext$runInChildContext$1.invoke(propagation.kt:167)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ChildContext$runInChildContext$1.invoke(propagation.kt:167)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ChildContext.runInChildContext(propagation.kt:173)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ChildContext.runInChildContext(propagation.kt:167)
	at com.intellij.util.concurrency.ContextRunnable.run(ContextRunnable.java:27)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1$1.run(Executors.java:735)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1$1.run(Executors.java:732)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:400)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedThreadFactory$1.run(Executors.java:732)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)

[friefa]

I can add the following:

I use Continue with OpenRouter and have to restart the IDE almost every 10 minutes because Continue freezes and no longer accepts user input. The error pattern is exactly the same as @bdavj's. This happens in both Agent Mode and Plan Mode. I use Jetbrains Rider on Windows 11. Autocomplete is disabled and only Chat-Window is used.