I have been experiencing multiple issues since upgrading to Big Sur.

• My zsh terminal takes upto 30s to open (never happened before)
• My Firefox tabs crash when I wake it from sleep
• Spotlight search is broken (can't search for Apps, docs,...)

I have tried re-indexing from the Preferences (add whole drive to Spotlight privacy, remove it again). I also re-indexed it from the terminal using:

sudo mdutil -E /

and

sudo mdutil -i on /

Both these options bring Spotlight back to life temporarily. However, as soon as I restart my machine, I have to do this all over again!

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

MacBook details:

• MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014)
• OS: macOS Big Sur Version 11.6.2
• Processor: 1.4 GHz Dual-Core i5
• RAM: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

I have been experiencing multiple issues since upgrading to Big Sur.

• My zsh terminal takes upto 30s to open (never happened before)
• My Firefox tabs crash when I wake my Mac from sleep
• Spotlight search is broken (can't search for Apps, docs, anything)

I have tried re-indexing from the Preferences (add whole drive to Spotlight privacy, remove it again). I also re-indexed it from the terminal using:

sudo mdutil -E /

and

sudo mdutil -i on /

Both these options bring Spotlight back to life temporarily. However, as soon as I restart my machine, I have to do this all over again!

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

MacBook details:

• MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014)
• OS: macOS Big Sur Version 11.6.2
• Processor: 1.4 GHz Dual-Core i5
• RAM: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Ever since I updated my MacBook Air to Big Sur, everything's broken! My zsh terminal takes upto 30s to open and all optimizations are useless (never happened before). All my Firefox tabs crash when I wake it from sleep and I have to restart the browser!!

But the biggest issue I have is that my Spotlight search is broken!! I can't even look for apps in the Spotlight bar much less documents or anything else! I tried to re-index it from the Preferences (add whole drive to Spotlight privacy, remove it again), it takes at least 15 minutes for the indexing to finish before I can use Spotlight. I also re-indexed it from the terminal using:

sudo mdutil -E /

and

sudo mdutil -i on /

Both these options bring Spotlight back to life temporarily. As soon as I restart my machine, I have to do this all over again!

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and how I can solve it? This never happened before, at least not persistently. I'm heavily reliant on my Spotlight search and this is driving me insane. Updating to Big Sur was the worst (computer related) decision of my life!!

MacBook details:
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014)
OS: macOS Big Sur Version 11.6.2
Processor 1.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
Memory 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

p.s. if anyone could drop a hint about the Firefox issue too, that would be a bonus.

I have been experiencing multiple issues since upgrading to Big Sur.

• My zsh terminal takes upto 30s to open (never happened before)
• My Firefox tabs crash when I wake it from sleep
• Spotlight search is broken (can't search for Apps, docs,...)

I have tried re-indexing from the Preferences (add whole drive to Spotlight privacy, remove it again). I also re-indexed it from the terminal using:

sudo mdutil -E /

and

sudo mdutil -i on /

Both these options bring Spotlight back to life temporarily. However, as soon as I restart my machine, I have to do this all over again!

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

MacBook details:

• MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014)
• OS: macOS Big Sur Version 11.6.2
• Processor: 1.4 GHz Dual-Core i5
• RAM: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3