Edit:
I turned off my wifi card, and now it launches immediately. Of course, what is a browser with no internet. But I guess there’s something about the network I moved to thats causing the delay. I’ll try a different network tomorrow and update for science
OG post: 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.
Nope it’s all green.
Idk if you saw my update but turning of the wifi fixes this problem.
I did move to a new network yesterday, I just didn’t think that could impact the flatpak launch, while not affecting the systems binary launch.
It’s a real head scratcher
What brand and model is your wifi card? Linux has always had issues with Broadcom modules, but I don’t know why or how that would affect flatpak. Maybe you can find a relevant permission in Flatseal (like allowing the browser to control the wifi card) and turn it off for Firefox.
The card is Realtek. I found an askubuntu thread where all flatpak commands were hanging, and their solution was to disable the nic.
This has only happened on this network. I didnt mention at first because I didnt think it mattered, but I’m visiting someone and moved networks.
The instant I take the dev down, the browsers pop up. I would bet money that when I go to my home net everything will work.
The flatseal angle didnt work either. The only reference is names on system bus.