Installing Zed extensions takes too long

[notcl4y14]

Summary

Installing some of the Zed extensions takes either too long or just does not do anything.

Description

When Zed starts up, it begins to install HTML extension. The extension installation indicator in the status bar is loading infinitely. No error, just loading. This happens with some other extensions as well, most notably language extensions (I suppose it installs theme extensions without any problems). rustc is installed, and its version is 1.91.1. The log file that Zed provides only outputs one message upon beginning installing the extension, which is INFO [extension_host] installing extension <package_name> latest version ("<package_name>" is not the actual output). I tried changing DNS to Cloudfare, didn't work either. Opening zed.dev in the browser doesn't produce any issues. The settings in Zed are untouched, except the base_keymap is set to "SublimeText". Also, the platform I'm using is Linux, and using other Linux distributions did not help.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Zed
2. Open Extensions
3. Install any Language extension (for example Lua)

Expected Behavior: The extension gets installed successfully Actual Behavior: The extension keeps installing, doing nothing

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.213.3 (Zed) OS: Linux Wayland endeavouros unknown Memory: 17.5 GiB Architecture: x86_64 GPU: AMD Radeon Vega 10 Graphics (RADV RAVEN) || radv || Mesa 25.2.7-arch1.1

If applicable, attach your Zed.log file to this issue.

Zed.log

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2025-11-23T20:44:33+03:00 INFO  [zbus::connection::socket_reader] read_socket;
2025-11-23T20:44:33+03:00 INFO  [zbus::connection::socket_reader] read_socket;
2025-11-23T20:44:33+03:00 INFO  [zbus::connection::socket_reader] read_socket;
2025-11-23T20:44:41+03:00 INFO  [extension_host] installing extension lua latest version
2025-11-23T20:49:30+03:00 INFO  [extension_host] installing extension odin latest version

[notcl4y14]

Another interesting thing is that TOML successfully installed. And when I started installing GDScript extension, there were rustc errors in Zed log file, which I assume means that it's actually doing something. Trying to install catpuccin icon theme results in an infinite loading too

[yeskunall]

Hey @notcl4y14 thanks for the detailed explanation! I actually started noticing this recently, as well as the others on the team. We’ll just have to find out when this broke and then fixing it should be relatively easier.

Just to confirm: what happens if you click on that notification?

[notcl4y14]

Clicking the "Installing ___ extension..." in the status bar does nothing. Does not disappear

[Y000GURT]

I have the same problem with the Zed version 0.214.5. But earlier (about a week ago), my colleague also couldn't install any extensions at all and stayed on vs code).

System Information:

• OS: Windows 11, version 24H2
• Architecture: x86_64