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I have been eagerly waiting for xulrunner 1.9.2 and with it, Firefox 3.6. I am using Firefox-branded from AUR and the Thunderbird 3.0.1 from the repos on a now up-to-date x86_64 system. I noticed after rebooting from today's sizable updates that both firefox and thunderbird now take an extremely long time to startup even after being started before (not starting "cold" from boot up). I do have a lot of addons installed on firefox which I would expect to cause firefox to startup somewhat slowly, but I have NO addons installed on thunderbird so this can't be the cause. I timed the startup of both of these programs after having started them up at least once after startup and they both took ~1min. 20secs. to start up! To compare, firefox 3.5.7 and the old version of thunderbird would only take a manner of <5secs. to start "warm" on this system.
I am wondering, what could be causing this? The only thing I can think of is xulrunner because I think both programs depend on it and otherwise they wouldn't both begin exhibiting this same problem at the same time if the issue wasn't common to both programs. Any ideas? Thanks.
Edit:
The plot thickens. It seems to not be only firefox and thunderbird suffering from this slow loading issue for Openoffice and the nvidia-settings window take about the same 1min. 20secs. to load as well. Could this be related to the update of libpng and libjpeg that seems to be causing problems for a lot of people? Programs like Gwenview, Comix, and Amarok start up almost instantly while those mentioned take almost a minute and a half, but do finally start up and behave normally.
Last edited by NobeyamaGP (2010-02-02 17:46:57)
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After another restart, firefox has begun throwing errors when starting from terminal. the error reported is:
/opt/kde/bin/skim: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryThis is printed 5 times, then gives up and firefox loads quickly after. So this appears to be an issue with skim and libpng similar to other problems being reported.
Some research uncovered that skim is no longer supported and is part of my kdemod3 install, however until this update it was working fine under kdemod4.
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It seems the entire problem lies with skim. After uninstalling it, programs start normally for me again.
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