Firefox in 19.10 is kind of slow to get ready

By new account you mean new user on system ?

That’s what I just tried and it seems better indeed :


here is before I synchronize Firefox with my personal Mozilla account.
→ no error in terminal.
→ still no .dbus folder in personal folder → is this expected ?

Later I’ve launched Mozilla Sync. It seems to work except it does not sync extensions. So far so good. I’ll try add my 3 favorites ones and see if one breaks something.
→ I can confirm installing “my” 3 extensions does not bring any problem.

What’s left… trying with global menu and pixel-saver applets.


→ error message in terminal

Disabling ( not un-installing ) global-menu applet gets back to normal in terminal :


How sad…

Now get back to my usual session where I’m pretty sure I already did all these test. Disabling global-menu applet before launching Firefox and…


…not enough to make FF happy.

Why ?
→ because I did not logout/login back, now is ok !!!

Conclusion
⋅ Firefox and global menu applet are not friends at all !

using dconf-editor org.appmenu.gtk-module there is a blacklist key - maybe if you add ‘firefox’ to that key then you can still use global menu but it should (in theory) ignore firefox

Ooops… I already rearrange my desktop without those applets. I’ll try again, thanks.

No surprise here I keep getting these quite often :


and when I hit « report problem » nothing else appears.

How may I know what it’s related to ?

have a look in /var/crash

you can remove the crash files in that folder. If you have “budgie-polkit” crashes, this again is something fixed in 20.04

django@ASGARD:~ ls -l /var/crash total 69100 -rw------- 1 root whoopsie 107716 avril 3 16:30 libpng12-0.0.crash -rw-r----- 1 django whoopsie 65796062 avril 3 22:37 _usr_bin_budgie-panel.1000.crash -rw-rw-r-- 1 django whoopsie 0 avril 2 19:19 _usr_bin_budgie-panel.1000.upload -rw------- 1 whoopsie whoopsie 37 avril 2 19:19 _usr_bin_budgie-panel.1000.uploaded -rw-r----- 1 django whoopsie 3001030 avril 3 06:05 _usr_bin_budgie-polkit-dialog.1000.crash -rw-r----- 1 essay whoopsie 1840952 avril 4 16:50 _usr_bin_budgie-polkit-dialog.1003.crash django@ASGARD:~

May I delete these ?

yep - all crash reports can be safely deleted

I tried… and you were right with maybe.

There’s already a list of blacklisted app’s in which I’ve added ‘firefox’

But then ( after logout/login session ) I got the errors back with firefox, and global menu displaying FF menu…

No more problem in 20.04.

The blacklist only works for gtk app’s and Firefox + Thunderbird are NOT gtk.

See https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel-appmenu/-/issues/325