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secretknowledge

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Registered: 2023-06-01

Posts: 22

[CLOSED] Firefox and Thunar suddenly taking long time to load

After using various distros for ~2 years prior as my main OS, and I recently wiped my computer and installed arch on it full time, using the wiki. I have been loving it since, but recently out of the blue Firefox and Thunar are taking a very long time to open while everything else remains snappy and fast. I am using i3-gaps + autotiling as my wm. When I ran it from the terminal, the command seemed to "freeze" and nothing was outputted until the window suddenly appeared and it started outputing. I did not change anything that I can think of, and it seems to have randomly started after a reboot. I have the latest drivers for my device installed and have reinstalled both several times. I even tried installing Firefox via flatpak, but it still has the same long loading time. I cannot find anything online that has fixed this.
Thanks for the help!

Update: This issue was solved by downgrading xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Last edited by secretknowledge (2023-06-02 18:45:19)

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nic3-14159

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Registered: 2018-08-20

Posts: 18

Re: [CLOSED] Firefox and Thunar suddenly taking long time to load

I noticed similar behavior with Firefox and gnome-disks on my system, though Thunar seems to be working fine for me. If I recall correctly I first noticed this behaviour a day or two ago, likely after an update and reboot. I'm using Xfce and linux 6.3.5. I ran strace on both and noticed that they both get stuck on a

poll([{fd=10, events=POLLIN}], 1, 25000)

call, where the 25000 is a 25 second timeout. After 25 seconds that call does return with a timeout and the programs seem to start up shortly after that.

Strace logs (trimmed most lines after that poll call times out):
gnome-disks: https://pastebin.com/E1Nfwheh
firefox: https://pastebin.com/yJaHChvF

We probably need to investigate/experiment further.

nic3-14159

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Registered: 2018-08-20

Posts: 18

Re: [CLOSED] Firefox and Thunar suddenly taking long time to load

Ah, found some threads on r/archlinux that might explain the issue. Seems like xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is causing issues

https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … very_slow/
https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … m_but_not/
https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … 44_update/

Downgrading that package from 44.1-2 to 43.1-1 seems to have fixed things for me.

secretknowledge

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Registered: 2023-06-01

Posts: 22

Re: [CLOSED] Firefox and Thunar suddenly taking long time to load

Thanks!

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seth

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Re: [CLOSED] Firefox and Thunar suddenly taking long time to load

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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