1768664 - Firefox takes a long time to open the file manager by clicking on "Show in folder"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[ohosmp]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0

Steps to reproduce:

Click "Show in folder" in "Downloads".

I am using the desktop environment "dwm" and I don't know how to view the logs related to "Show in folder".

Actual results:

It waits more than 20 seconds before opening my file manager, during which time Firefox does not respond to any action.

Expected results:

Quickly open My File Manager.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This sounds very much like a dupe of bug 1762708.

Does Firefox 101 (currently in beta) work any better? See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1762708#c5 and later comments about how to debug why your dbus setup is broken.

Please can you let us know if this fixes it, and if not, please post a performance profile from https://profiler.firefox.com/ so we can look into it in more detail.

Comment 2

[ohosmp]

(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #1)

This sounds very much like a dupe of bug 1762708.

$ ls /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
ca.desrt.dconf.service    org.flameshot.Flameshot.service         org.gtk.GLib.PACRunner.service        org.kde.kded5.service         org.kde.kioexecd.service       org.kde.kssld5.service
org.a11y.Bus.service      org.freedesktop.portal.Tracker.service  org.kde.dolphin.FileManager1.service  org.kde.kglobalaccel.service  org.kde.kmtpd5.service         org.kde.kwalletd5.service
org.fcitx.Fcitx5.service  org.freedesktop.systemd1.service        org.kde.kcookiejar5.service           org.kde.kiod5.service         org.kde.kpasswdserver.service  org.knopwob.dunst.service

I also realized that it's not exactly a Firefox problem, because I just had the same problem with vscode, but I haven't found the cause of the conflict yet.

Comment 3

[ohosmp]

Attachment: May 14 12:41:22 mid dbus-daemon[491]: [session uid=1000 pid=491] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.FileManager1' May 14 12:42:56 mid dbus-daemon[491]: [session uid=1000 pid=491] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.FileManag

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Comment 4

[ohosmp]

Obviously this has nothing to do with firefox, I've only recently used linux as my daily system and I forgot I could query journalctl, so I wasted a lot of time.

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Thanks for confirming. Looks from the log like dolphin is crashing when launched initially. After bug 1762708 (ie on Firefox 101) we'll not block Firefox on the dbus call anymore, so Firefox will stay responsive (though it might still be slow to open things if dbus / your system is confused about what file manager to use).