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Flatpak Firefox (and forks) very slow to start (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While other flatpak apps have no problems. Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If it is due to an inefficiency of Firefox it seems strange to me that no fork has solved the problem, other browsers like Brave work perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not only because of performance issues, but also because it's clunky sometimes. For example, I cannot use KeePassXC Browser extension on Flatpak Firefox cause this implementation is borked. However in native version works flawlessly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The extension is probably not broken because of Firefox but because Flatpak's sandboxing prevents it from talking to KeePassXC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I know. That's why I'm using native Firefox version, which works flawlessly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Flatpak Firefox and Chromium are very different. Note that Flatpak Firefox starts normally fast for me.

Use the native version, it is one of the best maintained software and has access to "user namespaces" for isolation.

Now search on the internet what that is XD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The only "Firefox" not presenting this start issue for me is Floorp but it's proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is floorp proprietary ?

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

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-private-components/main/LICENSE

I'm not sure, Wikipedia says partially

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Run it from the terminal to get more info.

Also run it through a profiler software like perf with the GUI hotspot.

Also, you are not by accident using secureblue, are you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is it? I'm on Bazzite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Dont mind then. Secureblue uses a strange hacky workaround for manking Flatpaks supposedly more secure.

So then try the other things I said.