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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] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any issues lately with your network? When DNS is down or having issues, Firefox and forks take forever to start up.

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

Nothing special, I don't think that's the problem since the lag is at every launch and it takes something like a minute to appear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It also happens when the hosts file is messed up and the system can’t resolve its own hostnames. Opensuse used to be pretty notorious for doing something odd to the hosts file by default that really only affected Firefox.

Edit: the increased security they’re trying around the browser might also be triggering that local resolution issue

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think that’s the problem

Listen to the parent, this is almost certainly something to do with DNS (i.e. Firefox is not getting an answer for some reason, then timing out, then using maybe a backup DNS server; maybe there are multiple rounds of this). Who knows how your distro and that flatpak produce this interaction, but something is going on there.

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

If that's the issue, why it doesn't happen with all other flatpaks?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Don't know. Different runtimes? Different permissions?