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HDArtworks

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Registered: 2015-04-20

Posts: 70

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Firefox took time to load

Hi.
When i click on firefox icon it took about 5-6 sec to show up.
I run firefox command in terminal and in this line stuck about 5-6sec then firefox load:

(process:1246): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

How can i decrease firefox load time?
Sorry for my bad english.
Thanks.

scar

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 449

Re: Firefox took time to load

Every time you launch firefox, it loads all the cache stored on your computer, and if you are using firefox since a while, it can last some seconds until it loads. If you don't mind, you can check the size of the cache with

du -sh /home/YOURUSERNAME/.cache/mozilla/firefox/SOMETHING.default/

and if you think it has grown too heavy, you can safely delete the whole directory

(As far as I know the Glib message you got is harmless, I have the same if I launch firefox from a terminal emulator)

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Hwiparam

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-09-26

Posts: 95

Re: Firefox took time to load

This is what comes to my mind if you want your apps to start up faster:
http://www.cesareriva.com/speed-up-your … d-prelink/

BTW, is it only Firefox that shows up too slow? Or do you experience such kind of problem with other apps as well?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Firefox took time to load

(As far as I know the Glib message you got is harmless, I have the same if I launch firefox from a terminal emulator)

+1
I get a new one when I open a tab too.

See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pr … ync-daemon

Chazza

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 506

Re: Firefox took time to load

Firefox (and Chromium as well) can take a long time to load if you haven't set your hostname in /etc/hosts. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … _very_long