My dock(Mac) freezes occasionally while Photoshop CC Is open.

My OS dock mouse over animation freezes sometimes while Photoshop CC Is open. (Mac) Cause? solution? The dock itself is still functional, just the mouse over animation stops working.

Photoshop can't interfere with the Dock process. It could be system paging slowing everything down, or a bug in the Dock code.

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