This applies to librewolf and firefox flatpaks. Just to preface, I’ve been using these flatpaks for years and never experienced anything like this.

This morning I did my business as normal with no issues. I usually open and close firefox alot and it takes maybe 10-30 seconds to start.

Then I shutdown for awhile. Came back and fired up firefox… nothing happened. The process is not using any cpu, it just sits. I kill the process and try again nothing changes. After 3-5 minutes, the window finally pops up.

My system installation of firefox works fine. So does the flatpaks for qutebrowser and tor browser. I ran flatpak repair and reinstalled them. Nothing has changed.

I didn’t make any changes to my system. There were no significant updates. I have no idea why this started.

If anybody has any tips on troubleshooting this, I would appreciate it.

Btw I’m on fedora39, and I’ve tested this on sway, gnome, hyprland, and gnome on xorg.

  • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’m also having this issue on my desktop with Firefox flatpak connected via Ethernet and Librewolf deb on my Surface Pro 8 via WiFi. On the SP8 it opens immediately on disabling WiFi or switching off my VPN which seems bizarre but at least partially lines up with your experience.

    I’m an uninformed casual on Linux but if I can help diagnose/resolve this lmk

    • somethingsomethingidk@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      You could try dmesg -w in a terminal before you start firfox and see if any messages come through.

      Can you still access the internet with another program?

      This could be a firefox issue, and not a flatoak issue as I assumed. Do you have another version of firefox on the system? If so what version?