I’m experiencing very slow startup times with Firefox as Snap compared to FF as Deb. As a testcase, I started both variants after booting without launching any other applications (“cold start”), compared with starting them when they had been already running (“warm start”). To rule out outliers, I did more than one run for each test (rebooting three times):
Snap cold start: 20 | 23 | 19
Snap warm start: 8.8 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 10.1
Deb cold start: 3 | 3.2 | 3.2
Deb warm start: 2.2 | 2.3
All times in seconds.
My test setup/system:
- Kubuntu 22.04 Plasma Wayland session
- fresh Firefox profiles
- Intel Core2Quad Q9550
- 8 GB RAM
- SSD drive
Any chance this will get better or be fixed until the final release?
Kind regards, Jan