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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!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Is it a snap? If it is try installing the Flatpak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Just checked, I'm using the deb package.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Have tried the flatpak? Also try creating a new profile.

What is your disk performance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Flatpak is much better, thank you for the suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.

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