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macos: disable NSAutoFillHeuristicController on macOS 26 

Fixes #8616

macOS 26 (as of RC1) has some pathological performance bug where the
terminal becomes unusably slow after some period of time. We aren't 100%
sure what triggers the slowdown, but it is app-wide (new tabs or windows
don't resolve it) and Instruments traces point directly to
NSAutoFillHeuristicController. Specifically, to the `debounceTextUpdate`
selector.

This is all not documented as far as I can find and also not open
source, so I have no idea what's going on.

The best I can tell is that the NSAutoFillHeuristicController has
something to do with enabling heuristic-based autofill such as SMS auth
codes in text input fields. I don't know what is causing it to go
haywire.

SMS autofill is not desirable in a terminal app, nor is any of the other
automatic autofill in macOS I know of (contact info, passwords, etc.).
So, we can just disable it.

This default isn't documented but I found it via a strings dump of the
AppKit binary blob and comparing it to the disassembly to see how it is
used. In my limited testing, this seems to work around the problem.
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Mitchell Hashimoto 2025-09-14 13:04:55 -07:00
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@ -147,6 +147,16 @@ class AppDelegate: NSObject,
// Disable the automatic full screen menu item because we handle
// it manually.
"NSFullScreenMenuItemEverywhere": false,
// On macOS 26 RC1, the autofill heuristic controller causes unusable levels
// of slowdowns and CPU usage in the terminal window under certain [unknown]
// conditions. We don't know exactly why/how. This disables the full heuristic
// controller.
//
// Practically, this means things like SMS autofill don't work, but that is
// a desirable behavior to NOT have happen for a terminal, so this is a win.
// Manual autofill via the `Edit => AutoFill` menu item still work as expected.
"NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled": false,
])
}