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!
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.
Just checked, I’m using the deb package.
Okay, well switching to flatpak solved it. Thanks!
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.
Pretty sure you have it as a snap package :-(
I only use native .deb and never a snap, for everything
I’m on PopOS, pretty sure it’s not snap!
Pop OS comes with snap preinstalled
Wrong.
Prove me wrong. Last time I checked it was installed
Use flatpak
Try changing away from Ubuntu to something better, like Mint
or Arch
Well. Mint would be an easier transition for them
Is it a snap? If it is try installing the Flatpak
Just checked, I’m using the deb package.
Have tried the flatpak? Also try creating a new profile.
What is your disk performance?
Flatpak is much better, thank you for the suggestion.
That’s strange
My guess it that there is something in your profile. However, Flatpak is more secure anyway so you might as well stick to it.
That may be because the hostname can’t be resolved.
https://forum.suse.org.cn/t/topic/12280 (Chinese)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296836 (upstream report)
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
