Firefox takes 30 seconds to start
Hi, mozilla firefox on an older linux machine takes about 30 seconds to start up.
- Computer: HPpavillon T3000
- CPU: AMD Athlon64 3500+ 2 GHZ
- RAM: 2 GB (4 x 512 MB) = Maximum
- GPU: GeForce 8600 GT
- SSD: 120 GB
- HDD: 250 GB
- OS: Suse Leap 42.2
I tried LXDE, LXQT and Plasma5 desktop on the same machine. The bootup time of firefox seems not to depend on the desktop installed on this machine. I run Version 54.0 of firefox. I use an empty startup page. There are no add-ons installed. I also tried firefox in save mode. I deleted the browser history.
Nothing helped to speed up the start of firefox. Google chrome-browser starts in less than 5 sec on the same computer ...
Is there a way to speed up the startup process of firefox on this machine?
Modified by Ferdinand Gruber
Chosen solution
I have accidentally found something interesting. I had forgotten to connect the network cable to the computer and then firefox startet quickly.
After that I looked more closely at the network settings. I disabled IPv6 support in the network settings. This solved my problem.
Now firefox takes less than 5 seconds to start up. I am happy.
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Can you try using firefox with an empty profile. Create a directory say tmpprofile in /tmp and then in the terminal start firefox like this:
firefox --profile /tmp/tmpprofile --no-remote
and then see if the issue has been solved. The problem could be a big bookmark file or a password database.
This did not speed up significantly the startup process. But I got some error messages in the terminal window:
firefox --profile /tmp/tmpprofile --no-remote
1502445965407 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965461 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965511 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965552 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965618 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965665 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965706 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965750 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965789 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965831 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965871 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965913 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965953 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445965991 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966033 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966071 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966111 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966149 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966189 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966226 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966269 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966307 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966345 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966386 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
1502445966425 addons.xpi-utils WARN Disabling foreign installed add-on [email protected] in app-global
(firefox:2164): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory base/ of theme oxygen has no size field
Can you update firefox to the latest version and see if that helps. At this point I am not sure what could be the problem since the console messages are not out of the ordinary.
Chosen Solution
I have accidentally found something interesting. I had forgotten to connect the network cable to the computer and then firefox startet quickly.
After that I looked more closely at the network settings. I disabled IPv6 support in the network settings. This solved my problem.
Now firefox takes less than 5 seconds to start up. I am happy.