"Open" and "Save As" menu options are too slow in all desktop applications

Budgie Desktop
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I have recently installed Budgie 24.04 and everything seems to be working fine, except for the fact that when I open an application and try to use the Open or the Save As oprions of the menu, it takes too long to open the file navigator/browser.
To illustrate what I am saying, I give an example with Thunderbird. If I receive an e-mail with attachments and try to save the attachments, I would expect the file navigator to be opened, like in the screenshot below. But this may take up to 60 seconds to happen!

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And similar behavior happens with any desktop application when I use the menu options “Open” or “Save As”, or anything that implies to open a file navigator to browse the directories.
Does anybody have the same behavior? Any clues about the possible cause?

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Oddly this person reported the same issue

Does the nvidia vs igpu apply to your setup?

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UPDATE: I do have an Nvidia card but the problem is not there. I am now running the nouveau driver and the problem still persists.

IMPORTANT DETAIL: it only affects snaps. Applications installed through .deb packages or repository do not exhibit the problem.

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Suggest the experts here that can help would be on the snapcraft forum

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Sorry @fvroig, no problem with Thunderbird on my UB 24.04: the file explorer opens immediately when saving an attachment.
However, I have to say that I’ve replaced the snap format of Thunderbird with the .deb format.

You should give it a try. :thinking: