Solved Firefox takes too long to start up

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Firefox is taking too long to start up recently; not sure since which update. Currently running www/firefox-esr 128.3.1,1 on FreeBSD 14.1; had the same problem with www/firefox too, both installed with pkg. Facing the same issue on KDE and XFCE on two different machines, one with a fast wired connection and the other with wifi. Tried safe-mode with the same results. The home page is a blank page.
 
Firefox 131.0.2 opens instantly for me on Freebsd 14.1 p5

I have Firefox installed in a Jail as well which also opens straight away

running dwl and wayland
 
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It takes around 3 sec to start on my old laptop.

Code: 
% time firefox file:///home/versus/quit.html
console.error: ({})
3.006u 0.561s 0:02.65 134.3%    734+301k 0+56io 0pf+0w

You need to set dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows for firefox in about:config so window.close() script can close the browser. Also you can disable about:studies to avoid some startup error messages and set your startup page as about:blank so it will not try to load the about:home cache and feeds.

Hostname: versus-laptop2
Bootmethod: UEFI
OS: FreeBSD amd64
Version: 14.1-RELEASE-p5
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU L 640 @ 2.13GHz
RAM: 2101M / 3843M
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And for chrome
Code: 
$time chrome --allow-scripts-to-close-windows file:///home/versus/quit.html
2.311u 0.670s 0:01.86 160.2%    213110+3673k 0+301io 0pf+0w

Here's the quit.html
Code: 
<html>
<body onLoad="window.close();">
</body>
</html>
 
VladiBG Thanks. I followed your instructions and here is the output; it seems firefox takes around 11 secs for me. I have noticed this delay only recently; earlier versions of firefox used to load quick on the same machine.
Code: 
% time firefox /home/user/quit.html
console.error: ({})
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs, line 2690: Error: listener not re-registered
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs, line 2690: Error: listener not re-registered
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs, line 2690: Error: listener not re-registered
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs, line 2690: Error: listener not re-registered
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ExtensionCommon.sys.mjs, line 2690: Error: listener not re-registered
console.warn: TopSitesFeed: Failed to fetch data from Contile server: NetworkError when attempting to fetch re
source.
1.061u 0.205s 0:11.06 11.3%     775+339k 0+194io 1pf+0w
I am currently running firefox-esr-128.3.1,1 on 14.1-RELEASE-p5. CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz. RAM: 64GB.
 
Following some very old firefox bugzilla entries , setting '127.0.0.1 your-host' mapping in /etc/hosts seems to fix the problem for me. Firefox starts instantly after this mapping was added.
However, I have never set such a mapping on my machines before, so something may have changed recently.
 
drr said:
I am currently running firefox-esr-128.3.1,1 on 14.1-RELEASE-p5. CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz. RAM: 64GB.
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10th gen Intel Core stuff seems to be surprisingly slow for FreeBSD... there's complaints elsewhere on these Forums that it's slow to compile stuff on FreeBSD (post #61) :
forums.freebsd.org

What's your fastest buildworld time?

I don't think so... but the way make works, it would stop if there are syntax errors in the .conf files... it would let you know about those errors, no extra utilities required. The compilation process would not start. Well, it will start if the misconfig is not a showstopper, like not including...
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org
 
astyle , thanks for pointing me to this. I have previously attempted compiling some ports on this machine and resorted to pkg later on as it was taking way too long to compile.
 
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