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My very old, and bad, laptop takes an extremely long time to start Firefox. However, forks like Floorp are a lot quicker to start. And since I'm pretty strict about using the same tools everywhere (no matter the OS) I'm now using Floorp on my main PC as well. But I'm not sure Floorp can be trusted... does anyone have anything to say about it?

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Is it not the case of using Ubuntu with Snap? I have experienced similar things with Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu starting extremely slowly when using the snap version. And Ubuntu does not offer deb packages for those anymore, you have to manually add the Mozilla repo to use that.

More about the Mozilla repo: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/4-reasons-to-try-mozill...

I've not used Ubuntu in many years. Laptop is running openSUSE Tumbleweed. Snaps and even Flatpak are a no-go on this laptop hehe.

This reads like one of those cases where simply buying a new laptop will be the easiest solution.

I barely ever use my laptop. It works fine 99% of the time, Firefox is like the 1% that's too slow to be usable with it. Floorp solves that.

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