Have you tried to start it from the terminal? Maybe there is some insight into which part of the startup process is taking so much time
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MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months agoI for sure have a problem. But it basically boils down to remove your profile, which is not an option. I did report the issue number of times and always got “do a refresh”, which I always do and it always doesn’t help. Even made a video for them, since it doesn’t sound believable. This is on my X1 Carbon, which has M.2 drive.
Akinzekeel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When I was trying to solve this issue I tried pretty much everything. It boils down to something related to my profile. Start without one or with a different one, it works as expected. The moment I sync my profile it bogs down. And am not sure what is wrong with my profile. I have a lot of bookmarks but not abnormally so. History is configured as with everyone else, no special config there.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What if you export your bookmarks and your addons, then delete your profile, create a new profile and sync NOTHING from your firefox account. Then import the boomarks, restart and see if that is the issue. Then add your addons one by one and restart inbetween to see if one acts up. Then change your firefox settings. Then turn your sync back on. Also are you using a normal installation or a flatpak, snap, etc?
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tried that. The moment bookmarks are in and I sync account that’s when it slows down. So I have to forego one or both. Also am not using neither installation nor flatpak, it’s a simple tar ball because it’s FF Dev edition. Doesn’t come packaged.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is some proper troubleshooting.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe export your profile to some other browser. Wipe your Firefox install and all of its user data. Reinstall Firefox import from the other browser.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The moment I import bookmarks and add my FF account things slow down. Tried all of that already.
Waryle@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Then something is fishy with your install. Maybe something to do with the DNS or the Firefox version you’re using, or maybe just Debian.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
DNS is not to blame here since Chrome and other applications work perfectly fine. Firefox in question is Developer Edition, so it’s bleeding edge new. And it’s not Debian because everything works fine until I sync my profile, then things slow down.
regbin_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s wack. I’ve never seen Firefox that take long to open. Here’s a video of it opening in a VM running Ubuntu 22.04: streamable.com/aqkftv
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I know, mine starts like that on second start. First one always takes a while. After upgrade to SSH and M.2 it is faster but still not immediate like yours. And it’s not even a slow and outdated machine.
Sure it’s not a total beast, but still 12 cores and 32GB of RAM with decently fast SSD.
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 11 months ago
So suffering through atrocious load times every day is more palatable than just setting up a new profile?
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not every day. My computer doesn’t get rebooted that often, maybe once in a month or two. So I got use to waiting that one time. But in general yes, I don’t want another profile as this one is synchronized with other devices and has all kinds of things I’d have to redo to fix an issue that shouldn’t exist in the first place.