newDot becomes unresponsive randomly when switching chats

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Action Performed:

1. Open a chat
2. Disconnect from the internet
3. Click on a different chat
4. Connect to internet (wait till it actually connects, confirm that by opening any web page in a new tab)
5. Click on a different chat, you'll notice several seconds of lag till the chat renders

Expected Result:

NewDot should not lag or crash or become unresponsive

Actual Result:

NewDot becomes unresponsive randomly when switching chats

Workaround:

unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• Web

Version Number: 1.1.42-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @iwiznia
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1647462425056679

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[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @nkuoch (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[nkuoch]

cc @tgolen as this is related to your [Proposal] Make App a True Offline First Application

[tgolen]

Hm, it sounds though like it works after a couple of seconds? Maybe that's more related to the performance stuff that Carlos is doing. I'm sure both projects will probably impact this behavior. I'm going to leave it unassigned but open so that we don't totally forget about this, but for right now, I'm not going to address it directly.

[marcaaron]

I think this is a probable duplicate of #7950. it's a 🐰 🕳️ that we are fairly close to solving so I'm going to assign myself here and see if my changes will resolve this issue.

[iwiznia]

@marcaaron so should we close this, given the other issue is trying to fix the same thing?

[marcaaron]

Confirmed it's a dupe after testing. My PR should fix this (and maybe other things).