epiphany: opening new windows is very slow

[Matti Koskimies]

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

Opening a new browser window in epiphany takes ca. 12 seconds. Even if it is a blank page. I can see epiphany taking 100% of CPU during this time. New tabs open instantly.

I'm using Intrepid Ibex with latest updates.

epiphany-browser:
  Installed: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/epiphany-gecko
Package: epiphany-gecko 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: epiphany-browser
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, is the issue specific to this software? do you get it all the time? do you have it since you installed ubuntu?

[Matti Koskimies (matti)]

The issue is specific to epiphany and I get it all the time. E.g. galeon or firefox or evolution open new windows instantly.
This is a recent issue, occurring long after first upgrading to Intrepid.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you know what you updated before getting the issue? did you change any configuration? could you try using a different user?

[Matti Koskimies (matti)]

I'm not sure what has changed before the issue occurred. Using a fresh user account epiphany works fine though. Maybe it's some of the extensions I'm using?

[Matti Koskimies (matti)]

I tried disabling each extension, but to no avail. I then tried lauching epiphany from the command line with the -p switch and in that session new windows appear instantly. What does the -p switch actually do?

[Matti Koskimies (matti)]

This bug is most likely due to the fact that I don't use the Gnome desktop, but Enlightenment. Maybe I should start some additional Gnome process? Here is a list of processes I have running after startup:

/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon -d --login
enlightenment
/usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/enlightenment_start
//bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
gnome-settings-daemon
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog
/usr/lib/gvfs//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/matti/.gvfs
/usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
gnome-screensaver
gnome-power-manager
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-hal-volume-monitor
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.4 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-burn --spawner :1.4 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1
/usr/lib/enlightenment/enlightenment_fm

[Matti Koskimies (matti)]

I actually tried now to run epiphany under Enlightenment using a fresh user account and epiphany works fine there. Even without gnome-session-daemon etc. (Before I tried it as a different user in a Gnome session.)

[Matti Koskimies (matti)]

I worked around the problem like this: I renamed the directory ~/.gnome2/epiphany, then started a fresh epiphany that had no slowness. I then imported my bookmarks from the old epiphany directory and everything seems to work fine for now.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could someone having this issue send it upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org ? thanks.

[Michael Kuhn (suraia)]

Upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570880.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for sent it to GNOME.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This should at least be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks for reporting.