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Why does FF freeze up or slow load on Mint? (lemmyhub.com)

submitted 1 year ago by laughingm0n@lemmyhub.com to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Recently made the switch to Mint from Windows. I am having a problem with FF though. Randomly but very frequently I see your most basic page load very slow if not at all. I have disabled hardware acceleration as some research has suggested but it still has the same issue. This happens on both my laptop and desktop.

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[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Two potential things:

Hardware acceleration, try turning it of and or on again
IFK why but xdg-desktop-portal-gnome cab cripple some programs like Firefox, remove it

[–] garam@lemmy.my.id 1 points 1 year ago

I disabling cisco open h264 helps, and use local ffmpeg on firefox

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

xdg-desktop-portal-gnome crippled my install as well - both Firefox and Steam took an absolute age to open. Uninstall it, everything perfect again.

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Can you give more information about your setup/system and firefox installation/version? ESR? Flatpak? DEB?
Can you give any steps for others to reproduce/compare your issue?

A first good ideas is always to create a second seperate profile (for example via about:profiles) and see if your issue can be reproduced with a fresh one without any modifications. The result will give a solid hint if your problem is profile or browser/system related.

[–] julianh@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Weird, I've never had an issue like this (using mint as well). You sure it's just Firefox? It could be an internet issue causing stuff to load slowly.

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