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leonbnu

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Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 10

Firefox start up too slow from menu?

It's weird that when I start firefox from KDE's kickoff menu, the startup is very slow. Altough I can browse web while the mouse icon shows still busy (the bouncing firefox icon ). However, when I start firefox from command line, there isn't this problem. What's the difference between starting from menu and comand line?

earthpig

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Registered: 2009-03-24

Posts: 30

Re: Firefox start up too slow from menu?

did you take a look at what command the menu item actually executes?

leonbnu

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Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 10

Re: Firefox start up too slow from menu?

it's "firefox %u".

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Firefox start up too slow from menu?

Welcome to the forums.

KDE knows that Firefox is doing something, so it keeps the busy cursor up until it stops. It was like that in KDE years ago when I was still using it. It also does that in Awesome WM today. It's annoying. The only way that I know how to deal with it is to disable KDE's application launch feedback (or whatever it's called) or to set a shorter time out for it.

leonbnu

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Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 10

Re: Firefox start up too slow from menu?

Thank you very much! That solves the problem.

dalingrin

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 128

Re: Firefox start up too slow from menu?

Just disable launch feedback for firefox only. As it is nice for kde apps.