VSCode: Can i not uninstall Copilot Chat without uninstalling Copilot?

[heydavee]

I feel like performance is horrible lately when using quick fixes in VSCode. And i am using quick fixes all the time to import modules in my react applications. How can i disable Copilot in this context? It keeps loading forever. Also when uninstalling Copilot Chat which i never use it also uninstalls Copilot itself. Arent those two seperated?

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Uninstalling Copilot Chat Extension in VSCode will uninstall Copilot

[digitarald]

We are looking into this. Fwiw, Chat should not degrade performance of completions.

[vitschwilk]

@digitarald that is correct but e.g. in my case the copilot chat extension crashes. This triggers the Extension bisect popup (after some time). I cannot uninstall the chat-extention because every time I disable/uninstall the chat-extension, the normal Copilot extension is disabled/uninstalled as well. This is very annoying because until the extension host finally gives up my CPU is at 100% utilization.

[ofek-kenbi]

As a workaround, I deleted the github.copilot-chat-0.11.1 folder and modified the extensions.json file in the vscode extension installation folder.

• Windows %USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions
• macOS ~/.vscode/extensions
• Linux ~/.vscode/extensions

[digitarald]

@ofek-kenbi did you also experience performance issues or just didn't need the chat functionality?

[ofek-kenbi]

@ofek-kenbi did you also experience performance issues or just didn't need the chat functionality?

VS Code completely crashed for me whenever I opened it. I had to delete chat so I could use VS Code.

[mihairaulea]

outrageous that you can't just get rid of it with a button