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Fixing a 25 second startup delay in Firefox

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06-09-2023

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+ I found Firefox was taking a while to launch in XFCE4. I tested removing + the plugins, emptying the cache, etc. but nothing worked. +

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+ Eventually I ran "strace Firefox" and found it was hanging polling + something for 25 seconds. +

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+ So armed with the readout from strace, I searched and found the solution : +

+ +sudo pacman -Rndd xdg-desktop-portal + +

+ I kept xdg-desktop-portal-gtk as the bug isn't in there. Apparently + xdg-desktop-portal-gnome has the same bug, but I don't use Gnome so... +

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Both Firefox and Libreoffice now launch in milliseconds!

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I hope this helps someone else...

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