Webview2 possibly causing PowerBI Desktop to freeze when applying measures/filters

I have enabled the new infrastructure feature that replaces CefSharp processes by Edge Webview2 in order to test it out and I had to disable it because it caused PowerBI Desktop to freeze on both com...

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FireFighter1017

Advocate III

4 years ago

v-cazheng-msft ,

I can't install January version (managed by IT)

And disabling Webview2 haven't helped so far.

I now only can use PBI Desktop on my pîmped desktop tower and it still fails sometimes when I keep a pbix file openned over night.

I'm working on reports using Live Dataset connection to published Datasets on a Power BI Service Premium workspace. I think it might have something to do with that because any other reports that aren't using live Dataset connections don't seem to crash that often.

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