Recently, a Windows Defender update rolled out that is inadvertently causing dramatically slower launching of the Ignition Designer, Perspective Workstation, and Vision with the Web Browser module installed.
This is confirmed to be related to the packaged Chromium browser extraction due to some change in Windows Defender.
The remediation options are:
- Add the directory with Chromium binaries to the whitelist.
- Rollback the Windows Defender update.
Our recommendation is to add the binaries directory to the whitelist:
- Go to Start → Settings → Update & Security → Windows Security → Virus & threat protection.
- Under Virus & threat protection settings, select Manage settings.
- Under Exclusions, select Add or remove exclusions.
- Select Add an exclusion, and then select the directory with the Chromium binaries. this is within the .ignition directory:
~/.ignition/cache/resources/jxbrowser