Edit:

I turned off my wifi card, and now it launches immediately. Of course, what is a browser with no internet. But I guess there’s something about the network I moved to thats causing the delay. I’ll try a different network tomorrow and update for science

OG post: This applies to librewolf and firefox flatpaks. Just to preface, I’ve been using these flatpaks for years and never experienced anything like this.

This morning I did my business as normal with no issues. I usually open and close firefox alot and it takes maybe 10-30 seconds to start.

Then I shutdown for awhile. Came back and fired up firefox… nothing happened. The process is not using any cpu, it just sits. I kill the process and try again nothing changes. After 3-5 minutes, the window finally pops up.

My system installation of firefox works fine. So does the flatpaks for qutebrowser and tor browser. I ran flatpak repair and reinstalled them. Nothing has changed.

I didn’t make any changes to my system. There were no significant updates. I have no idea why this started.

If anybody has any tips on troubleshooting this, I would appreciate it.

Btw I’m on fedora39, and I’ve tested this on sway, gnome, hyprland, and gnome on xorg.

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    What version of xdg-desktop-portal-* package do you have installed? If it’s -gnome try replacing it with -gtk, see if that helps.

  • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi
    2·
    7 months ago

    Sometimes some programs and some downloads have weird slowdowns like this when my VPN is on, even though others remain completely unaffected

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
    2·
    7 months ago

    Could you leave journalctl -f running while Firefox is starting? Anything interesting happening right after initiating the start and/or before it actually starts?

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    7 months ago

    Also a dbus notification daemon (whichever you use) may be having problems. Things hang inexplicably if it’s not running.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    1·
    7 months ago

    Install perf and use the app hotspot or just perf itself to run the command and see what happens

  • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I’m also having this issue on my desktop with Firefox flatpak connected via Ethernet and Librewolf deb on my Surface Pro 8 via WiFi. On the SP8 it opens immediately on disabling WiFi or switching off my VPN which seems bizarre but at least partially lines up with your experience.

    I’m an uninformed casual on Linux but if I can help diagnose/resolve this lmk