Workspace is all coded with JS and API calls, so depending on the size of your reports, you need quite a bit of memory and processing power to run them efficiently... also, how many extensions you have in your browser can be a factor, as those all use up memory as well. Some browsers may handle the load better than others... it may be that you will find a specific browser runs more efficiently, and use it for your reporting while using your main browser for everything else....
There is an auto-save... but it doesn't save over the report you are working on (Thankfully.. I honestly can't stand the Google Auto-Save behaviour, and if Adobe were to implement that it would be horrendous... since I do so much "adhoc" analysis that auto-saving over reports would break all our standard reports, or flood my interface with hundreds of "untitled documents" the way Google does).
You may not be aware of how the auto-save actually works.... More similar to the auto-save that Office suite uses, a copy of the report is saved every few minutes (not over top of the report so that if you do something that breaks, or don't need it to save your base report is untouched).
When the auto-save has something that was "lost" you will get a new folder in your Workspaces called "Recovered Projects (Last 7 Days)".
Maybe it's working, maybe it's not... I haven't really had to use it.... I can see a bunch of my adhoc reports that I didn't want or need to be saved sitting in that folder for me... I don't have any real reports there, but as far as I know, those should appear there too...
I am just used to using CTRL+S or COMMAND+S frequently.. the way people used to do for years before auto-save was even a thing... I get that losing work is frustrating, but auto-save is still a convenience feature... I prefer to rely on myself then something automated.... and I definitely don't want my reports overwritten with an auto-save while I am using a base report to do a deep dive (rather than having to replicate it so that auto-save doesn't make those adhocs part of the report)
Have I lost things.. sure... do I complain about the auto-save not saving me... no... I'd rather lose a little work than having a system that saves everything that I'm doing that I don't want saved in the first place.... since 70% of my work in Workspace is adhoc.
