FS#48177 - [firefox] Slow startup

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kai Hendry (hendry) - Sunday, 14 February 2016, 10:22 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 13:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I am aware of:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Firefox_startup_takes_very_long

I've reset my hosts. No impact. Still 30s to start. I've reset ~/.mozilla.


Additional info:
* 44.0.2-1 (though this has been happening for months before)

http://s.natalian.org/2016-02-14/hosts
http://s.natalian.org/2016-02-14/nsswitch.conf

Steps to reproduce:

Start firefox and wait...

I've seen so many other people have this problem on the forum, that maybe there should be some wrapper script to check this.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 13:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fontconfig should be to blame for this, fixed in latest version.

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