FIrefox taking forever to load

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#1

I’m running Tumbleweed on an i7-7700k and M.2 SSD and Firefox used to load almost instantly after clicking it, but I think there was an update a couple months ago and ever since then it’s taking forever in comparison to load (sometimes up to 7 or 8 seconds). I’ve switched to Google Chrome in the meantime because of this but I really want to use Firefox. I’ve tried all the basic stuff like disabling add-ons and clearing cache etc, but I can’t seem to figure it out. I also tried the whole “assign hostname to loopback IP” thing in YaST which seems to fix it for most people with no luck. I also tried disabling IPv6, switching back from NetworkManager to Wicked and back with no luck. Normally something like this wouldn’t stump me for this long, but I’m out of ideas.

Has anyone else experienced this or does anyone have any suggestions?

#2

On Sat 01 Dec 2018 12:06:03 AM CST, goguda wrote:

I’m running Tumbleweed on an i7-7700k and M.2 SSD and Firefox used to
load almost instantly after clicking it, but I think there was an update
a couple months ago and ever since then it’s taking forever in
comparison to load (sometimes up to 7 or 8 seconds). I’ve switched to
Google Chrome in the meantime because of this but I really want to use
Firefox. I’ve tried all the basic stuff like disabling add-ons and
clearing cache etc, but I can’t seem to figure it out. I also tried the
whole “assign hostname to loopback IP” thing in YaST which seems to fix
it for most people with no luck. I also tried disabling IPv6, switching
back from NetworkManager to Wicked and back with no luck.

Has anyone else experienced this or does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi
Check the settings (about:config) and ensure proxy is set to off, and
ipv6 off;


pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);
pref("network.notify.IPv6", false);
pref("network.proxy.type", 0);

Are you using your ISP DNS servers, if so consider something like
openDNS?

The other one is captive portal detection;


pref("network.captive-portal-service.enabled", false);

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#3

I just tried all of those, same issue. :confused:

I’m running my own DNS server with the hostnames of devices on my network that forwards to openDNS.

#4

Hi
Likewise (Pihole on RPi3’s), so if you create a test user and login and test firefox, is it better? If so then would look at vacuuming the user sqlite db’s.

#5

So it loads right away under a new user. Hm.

How would I go about doing that?

#6

Hi
So user related, if you ensure sqlite3 is installed, firefox shutdown and as your user cd down to;


cd .mozilla/firefox/*.default
for x in *.sqlite; do sqlite3 $x vacuum; done

That will cleanup the firefox databases, will it help, not sure.

Any tweaks added to desktop themes etc?