The picker loads very slow…
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Hey @Anna_Balyan, thanks for reaching out and sorry to hear this!
What OS are you using? And are you using Figma in the browser or the desktop app? Is this happening with all your files or a particular file?
I am using the Desktop app on my Mac
Thanks, @Anna_Balyan!
Again, is this for all files or a particular file? And can you clarify whether the assets panel fails to load at all, or does it just take longer than expected? If longer than expected, does this happen only while loading a particularly large library?
For more context, when a library is large, especially if it includes very many variants in one component set, extra load time is expected. A component set appears as a single-component update when publishing, but keep in mind that publishing a single component set includes all of its variants. Very large component sets can be slow to publish and can slow down performance in files using these variants.
If you still have questions or can’t load even a small library, please share your file with us here: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Be sure to use your Figma account email, include a link to the file, and share edit access with support-share@figma.com as an editor on the library and on a file where the assets panel doesn’t load, so our technical quality team can try to reproduce the issue.
The behavior is consistent regardless of the library’s size—it always loads slowly at first, but eventually completes without errors. This occurs every time I try to load a library that hasn’t been previously loaded. However, once it finally loads, subsequent attempts throughout the day are instant. This issue affects everyone on my team, and we work with a large number of libraries containing many components and variants.
Thanks for confirming that it does eventually load, Anna.
This sounds like expected behavior, since the attempts after it’s been loaded are instant. Keep in mind that since Figma is a browser-based app, there’s an active memory limit of ~2GB per browser tab that needs to work within.
There are some solutions to reduce memory usage when you’re using large component or variant libraries that you can try here: