FIRST launch of Chrome takes 30 seconds

[Audio2u]

Hi all.
I am noticing that the first time I launch Chrome in any user session, it takes about 30 seconds for it to start. Because of this, I’ve added it to the ‘autorun at start’ options.
But if I close it down and re-open it within the same session, it launches instantaneously (as I’d expect).
Anyone have any ideas on WHY it takes so long to launch the first time?
Or is it not Chrome that’s taking the time, but the key vault?

[jrichard326]

Have a look at the latest Stable Updates Announcement 06-04-2023 (Known Issues):

[Stable Update] 2023-06-04 - Kernels, Gnome 44.1, Plasma 5.27.5, Python 3.11, Toolchain, Firefox

Hello community, Another stable branch update with some usual package updates for you. It took us almost a month to complete these updates for you. There are a lot of changes: toolchain, systemd, latest updates to KDE and Gnome and many more are included in this one. Hence we also decided to bump our release version to 23.0 and used Ultima Thule as our code name. Well it is still a Star Trek planet but it also might have some vibes form Zelda. The install media will come later, therefore the …

[Aragorn]

@Audio2u

Or is it not Chrome that’s taking the time, but the key vault?

With the disclaimer that I am using chromium rather than the proprietary google-chrome and that I’m not using any key vault, I suspect it will be the latter, yes.

I’m not seeing the same issue here in chromium, which uses the same browser engine as google-chrome, although I have noticed already that chromium will periodically take a long time to open a new tab, which is always coupled to the drive light on my computer housing lighting up for the same amount of time — about 20 seconds — and one of the processor cores peaking at 100% load. This is because of chromium’s aggressive caching policy, but it always happens when chromium is already running, and chromium startup time is always immediate.

So, the bottom line is that it’ll probably be the key vault, yes.

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@jrichard326

Have a look at the latest Stable Updates Announcement 06-04-2023 (Known Issues):

I don’t think that will be the problem in the OP’s case, given that he doesn’t have the slow-start problem when relaunching google-chrome a second time within the same session.

[jrichard326]

Thanks. I have ungoogled-chromium as a secondary browser and don’t have that issue here either with xfce unstable.

[koshikas]

can we get to know whether you are running off chrome on a HDD by any chance.

i have chrome (installed on SSD) with two profiles, one on SSD and one on HDD, the difference (loading speed) between the two profiles with just the profile on HDD is a sizeable

[Audio2u]

Koshikas, my OS is installed on an m.2 nvme stick… so plenty fast enough!

[Okanochiwa]

This 30s delay oddly coincides with the dbus timeout problem I had. Have a look here it case it helps: GTK programs all take 25-30s to launch