While other flatpak apps have no problems. Any suggestions?
Firefox is one of the few exceptions I suggest always use native version
If it is due to an inefficiency of Firefox it seems strange to me that no fork has solved the problem, other browsers like Brave work perfectly.
Flatpak Firefox and Chromium are very different. Note that Flatpak Firefox starts normally fast for me.
Use the native version, it is one of the best maintained software and has access to “user namespaces” for isolation.
Now search on the internet what that is XD
The only “Firefox” not presenting this start issue for me is Floorp but it’s proprietary.
Is floorp proprietary ?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-private-components/main/LICENSE
I’m not sure, Wikipedia says partially
Any issues lately with your network? When DNS is down or having issues, Firefox and forks take forever to start up.
Nothing special, I don’t think that’s the problem since the lag is at every launch and it takes something like a minute to appear.
It also happens when the hosts file is messed up and the system can’t resolve its own hostnames. Opensuse used to be pretty notorious for doing something odd to the hosts file by default that really only affected Firefox.
Edit: the increased security they’re trying around the browser might also be triggering that local resolution issue
I don’t think that’s the problem
Listen to the parent, this is almost certainly something to do with DNS (i.e. Firefox is not getting an answer for some reason, then timing out, then using maybe a backup DNS server; maybe there are multiple rounds of this). Who knows how your distro and that flatpak produce this interaction, but something is going on there.
If that’s the issue, why it doesn’t happen with all other flatpaks?
Don’t know. Different runtimes? Different permissions?
Is this new, or has it been happening for a few days/weeks? I’m on Fedora Atomic (which Bazzite is based on) and have never experienced this (though I mostly use Mullvad browser, a fork of Firefox). I tried Bazzite a few weeks ago and also never experienced this with the Firefox flatpak. If it’s been happening for awhile, it may be hardware-specific or a config thing. Out of curiosity (just to get a 1:1 comparison), do you experience the same thing with the Mullvad browser flatpak?
I’m on a fresh install. I experienced this with Firefox, LibreWolf and Waterfox.
