I’m almost sorry to ask this, but does anyone have experience with Firefox on Linux taking a long time to open? I’m running Pop!_OS on a fairly modern machine. All other programs open pretty quickly, but Firefox seems to drag its feet on startup. Once it’s open it’s great, no problems with speed.

I have tried disabling extensions (ublock origin, sponsorblock, decentraleyes, i still don’t care about cookies) and I have tried setting my default profile as one without any custom user.js (I have a profile with Arkenfox and one with Betterfox’s user.js). Nothing I have done so far has seemed to make any difference, but Help->Troubleshoot Mode allows Firefox to open quickly, so there must be something that I can disable that is causing the issue… Any ideas? Thanks.

Edit: Seems like swapping to the flatpak version made things much faster. The Pop!_OS .deb version must be snap like you all said :) Thanks everyone!

  • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Do you know if its installed through snap? I’ve heard that can have issues starting up quickly. You can try the flatpak or the deb package.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      I’ve always wondered why snap is so slow, I feel like launching a docker container with firefox in it would still be faster than snap.

    • sugar_in_your_tea
      2·
      4 months ago

      If OP is on Ubuntu, it’s a snap.

      I personally don’t have any issues launching Firefox, which is installed as a regular app and not a snap/flatpak. It’s basically instant for me, maybe 2-3s if I have a ton of tabs or something. I haven’t tried the flatpak, but I’d be surprised if it adds more than a second or so, because other flatpak apps launch reasonably fast.

  • facow [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    Is Firefox installed as a snap package on PopOS? That could be it if that’s your only snap package. I’d recommend installing a Firefox fork that’s a regular deb package (Libre Wolf probably?) and seeing if that changes anything

      • sugar_in_your_tea
        2·
        4 months ago

        If you’re on Ubuntu or one of its derivatives (Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu derivative), it’s probably a snap. I don’t know about Pop!_OS specifically, but I know Ubuntu ships snaps through debs.

    • SentientFishbowl@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Good suggestion. What does this mean? [Parent 4226, Unnamed thread 762a7e8fd280] WARNING: Failed to set scheduler settings: Operation not permitted: ‘glib warning’, file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:187

      (firefox:4226): GLib-CRITICAL **: 20:17:36.507: Failed to set scheduler settings: Operation not permitted

      • Dr Jekell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        From the what I have read it seems like this is a Gnome error causing problems for software.

        You might be able to get better feedback if you post in one of the Linux specific communities.

  • Psyhackological@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 months ago

    I have the exact same issue on PopOS but with Librewolf but not with Brave, so it’s related to the engine. Moreover, this bug is funny because I don’t know why, but it’s related to me being in the exact place. I don’t have the same issue when I’m at my family home, but when I’m somewhere other, the issue occurs. It loads about 10 - 15 second. I still haven’t figured it out, though. Pacstall also lags when I’m updating.

    dpkg -l | grep librewolf
ii  librewolf                                         128.0-1                                                           all          The Librewolf Browser