Thunar & Firefox taking 30 seconds to start

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Hi
Suddenly, on my up to date AL i3-wm Thunar and firefox take ages (30 s) to start
This is the same via keybind, terminal or menu (ROFI?)
Once a window is open, opening another is ‘instant’
All the other apps I have tried are fine (XFCE4-terminal, Calibre, Skype, Zoom,
Everything else is fine too
Any ideas please?

leigh@T16-AL ~ % neofetch
                   -`                    leigh@T16-AL 
                  .o+`                   ------------ 
                 `ooo/                   OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
                `+oooo:                  Host: 21BVCTO1WW ThinkPad T16 Gen 1 
               `+oooooo:                 Kernel: 6.3.1-arch1-1 
               -+oooooo+:                Uptime: 5 mins 
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Packages: 1042 (pacman) 
            `/++++/+++++++:              Shell: zsh 5.9 
           `/++++++++++++++:             Resolution: 1920x1200, 1920x1080 
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           WM: i3 
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3] 
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         Icons: ArchLabs-Dark [GTK2/3] 
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Terminal: xfce4-terminal 
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       Terminal Font: Monospace 12 
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-1255U (12) @ 4.700GHz 
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     GPU: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [UHD Graphics] 
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:    Memory: 3620MiB / 15695MiB 
 `++:.                           `-/+/
 .`                                 `/
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What are the addons on FF, it might be the issues somehow.

Oh, I would also check with those, hopefully it can pinpoint the issues; Hope that it can be of any help

systemd-analyze

systemd-analyze blame

Edit; Also check this one into FF; about:memory

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I also wonder if you have Disabled FF s Collection Data & Use in your Privacy & Security into your Preferences also. It might make FF to start faster.

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I have thunar taken about 30 seconds to start. It just started today on a Arch install, the AL install is still working without issue. Tried starting thunar from terminal so I could see what was happening and had no warnings or errors displayed, never had time to go through the logs yet.

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Did you happen to do an update of the Arch system, but not the AL system?

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Both are fully updated, but just noticed if I use pkexec thunar that thunar open as usual. I’m sure this will be fixed rather sooner than later. I never checked out the Arch bugs yet.

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As for the Thunar issue here, do you happen to have this one installed in your system !( If so try to remove it & see what it does, from this link here)


 xdg-desktop-portal

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=270280

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True @PackRat , updates can screw up installs or apps sometimes.

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@altman , just had a little time to look into the issue and seen your post, that fixed it without even having to reboot. On a reboot the fix carries through.
:beers:

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Hey cool ! Good to know that it worked on your end.

Glad to know that it could be of any help @anon28865476

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Make sure you ask for a raise!
:rofl:

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Lol, I ll ask for 2 raises in order to make sure I have 1 ! lol

Or getting fired ! lol

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@leigh , your FF issue might also be related to these links here; If the solutions don t work above ;

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=275523

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit

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@altman
You sir, are a STAR of the very highest stellar magnitude!!

I had xdg-desktop-portal installed as part of flatpak (only ever used it to test a beta of OpenCPN to verify their solution of an issue I raised there)

I removed flatpak and both Firefox and Thunar start instantaneously now :grin:

Thank you!

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Glad that I could ve been of any help @leigh

& also glad that you got your issues fixed.

Edit; I implemented some of those also in my install, those helped with FF s slow speeds also.

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