I'm so glad to use a distro with 0 flatpak/snap/whatever, my FF is always the latest one, with a simple .deb install from apt, ❤️ MX Linux
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Firefox is one of the few exceptions I suggest always use native version
If it is due to an inefficiency of Firefox it seems strange to me that no fork has solved the problem, other browsers like Brave work perfectly.
Flatpak Firefox and Chromium are very different. Note that Flatpak Firefox starts normally fast for me.
Use the native version, it is one of the best maintained software and has access to "user namespaces" for isolation.
Now search on the internet what that is XD
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I noticed this too on my slowest machine. I guess you should just use native packages or other formats to fix it (as the other person said). I'd stick with Flatpak if possible though. It's more secure
Anything else works fine, the only other problem I've noticed is that some GTK applications don't respect the KDE Plasma theme (in my case only Quod Libet).
Native packages? Sorry.
Sorry for what? I'm trying a fresh install of Bazzite so the distro prefers flatpaks.
Sorry for giving a rather useless advice. Of cause, you know about native packages, but since you are asking about flatpak, you, probably, have a reason to chose it. So, my original message was mostly intended as a joke, for which I am sorry.
Probably best that you do the same (installing packages in the FS overlay kind of starts to defeat the point of containerization). You could try installing it with a distrobox and then exporting the app—see if that fixes your loading issues.
I run Bazzite on a gaming laptop from 2015, and I haven't noticed any particularly long load times. Do you have some browser extension(s) that are maybe causing issues?
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