I didn’t have a lot of time to do all of the installs, but I tested the following
1.5.38
1.5.37
1.5.36
1.5.35
1.5.20 (I jumped to this one since you thought it might just work. Due to the time I had.)
I was installing them in reverse and all would crash Finder once I enabled Tabs Plugin. 1.5.20 presented the strangest behavior when I enabled tabs and restarted Finder. It never displayed just the Finder CPU utilization behavior like the others did. It showed multiple tabs, almost like a Finder window on top of a Finder window. But all of them caused Finder in Activity Monitor to show 100% CPU Utilization. But it was 1.5.20, tested thus far, that seems like it was trying to run multiple Finders at the same time. Very odd behavior, the window on top was flashing or flickering over and over. I will try the others tomorrow as I have time. Hoping this might help you for the time being.
I am thinking this problem has something to do with 10.9.4. May be Apple changed the way Tabs work in Finder for this version? You might have to investigate that with them. Tomorrow I will try other versions in the list and see what happens.
I might be really related to 10.9.4 update. Please also check items in your sidebar. Don’t you have any special items there? Some link to a server or remote location?
Other than the typical sidebar Favorite items, such as, Air Drop, All My Files, Applications, Desktop and so on. In Devices I have my Time Machine mount to USB Drive. For Shared: I have my USB drive on my Airport Extreme and my HP multi function Printer a HP Officejet Pro 8500.
I can confirm this on multiple computers at our studio. Without changing anything else, this fixed the hangup probme for me and my team. Computers were upgraded to 10.9.4 and TotalFinder 1.6.2 and TotalFinder no longer would launch, just hang. Rolling back to 1.6 didn’t fix it either. But after entering this single line in Terminal on affected machines, problem solved. Thanks darwin!!
As of yesterday it stopped loading entirely on my system. I have yet to see stable behavior in Yosemite public beta. When it was working, my finder windows would change size when opening a second tab. Now it will not load at all; I get no error messages, just no response.
I re-downloaded the .dmg from this site and it has (at least for now) resolved the problems. This is the first time that applying an update through the app’s native dialog turned out so badly. Not sure what happened but will continue to monitor.
I was having the same issue on 10.9.4 with totalfinder 1.6.2 but running the above command in Terminal resolved the hanging issue. Question will this command need to ran each time I do an Update?