Firefox slow to boot [Arch Linux]
Hi, so I recently installed arch Linux and want to use Firefox as my browser. However ever since I installed it, it takes a long time to launch the program. It consistently takes just over 26 seconds to launch. After it's open everything works fine besides that. Also when I launch Firefox from the terminal I get this message "ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.jsm Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.sys.mjs" I have been looking at some help threads but I can't make sense of what they are talking about. Hopefully this makes some amount of sense to you.
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Ill give this an update in case its able to help someone else. So I was able to find a solution. I added "exec dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY XAUTHORITY &" to my i3 configuration file and rebooted my system. Thanks again for your help
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Are you using the version of Firefox from the Arch repo or from Mozilla?
I recommend trying to reproduce this issue in a version directly from Mozilla - https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
I was able to replicate the issue with the firefox program installed from Mozilla's website. That being said while I was testing it, I installed a file manager (Thunar) and noticed it has the same 26 sec stratup. I ran it from the terminal and it gave me this error "ThunarThumbnailer: Failed to retrieve supported types: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1 was not provided by any .service files ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment." which leads me to believe its actually an arch issue with certain programs and not an issue with firefox itself. If you know of a solution for this issue lmk. Otherwise, I can take this issue to a support team related to arch linux. Thank you
No problem, glad we helped get you going in the right direction to get this resolved.
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Ill give this an update in case its able to help someone else. So I was able to find a solution. I added "exec dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY XAUTHORITY &" to my i3 configuration file and rebooted my system. Thanks again for your help