Chromium has been taking a long time to start lately–over a minute. Google suggested that the problem was the profile was probably corrupted so I tried the recommended procedure, which did not change the results.
Any idea on how to fix this problem?
It can be a challenge for folks to possibly assist you, when you do NOT provide obvious information
What was the “recommended procedure” ??
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Also, have you executed the app from the command line to check for clues in the output??
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Sorry. It said to rebuild my profile. I used the Google Chromium item to rebuild it.
To remove all config of chromium use:
rm -rf ~/.config/chromium
rm -rf ~/.cache/chromium
The bugreport explains that this issue is related to kwallet and should be fixed in the next Tumbleweed snapshot…
And btw, instead of animating users to erase user configs without explaining the consequences, why not recommending to rename/move the directories? So in case that your recommendation won’t work, the user has the possibility to get the config back easily.
Ack, indeed better move the directories then completing removing them.
On the bugreport: I thought the problem was already solved as I had slow chromium startups myself but that was somehow solved about 1 week ago. I checked and I have kwallet disabled explicitly in the KDE Wallet settings.
@featherfoot, do you see the problem gone after the last update?
Yes, I still have the problem as of today’s update (morning, 6/4/25).
It actually seems worse, in fact. The system slows to a crawl.
As I suggested before, execute it from a command line to check for clues in the output.
Another test: create a new user account… log out of your regular user account, then login as the new user, then launch Chromium - same problem??