First website slow to open after reboot

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Hi - kind of an odd issue, I have 2 laptops of the same model. Laptop #1 has Arch installed and laptop #2 has EndeavourOS installed. When I reboot laptop #2 and open a browser (FF or Chrome) it takes about 3 min to load any websit. After the initial website loads, other websites load normally .5 - 2 sec.

While the initial website is loading, I can ping the same location (google.com) with good results. Laptop #1 with Arch, first website loads as expected after a reboot.
Laptop #2 had Antergos and worked as expected before installing EndeavourOS.

Seems like some kind of DNS issue. Thoughts on what I can check??

Thoughts on what I can check

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Do you have xdg-desktop-portal-gnome installed?

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No. I have XFCE installed.

I should note that all sites were a bit slow to open so I modified \etc\hosts to look like this, commenting the ip6 items.

#Standard host addresses
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
#ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
#ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
#This host address
127.0.1.1 i5-Laptop
0.0.0.0 get.code-industry.net

Now it matches the \etc\hosts on my Arch machine and sites open quickly, except the first one after reboot.

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Humour me what does:

yay xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Return?

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 $ yay xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

3 aur/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome-noprompt-git 42.0.1+r12+gb9850a5-1 (+1 0.00)
A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal for the GNOME desktop environment without permission prompts
2 aur/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome-git 41.0+31+g89f18b8-1 (+0 0.00) (Orphaned) (Out-of-date: 2022-08-11)
A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal for the GNOME desktop environment
1 extra/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 44.1-2 (155.9 KiB 657.7 KiB) [gnome]
A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal for the GNOME desktop environment
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)

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@Gotit
What are your settings on Firefox?

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I set my settings to strict and I also use ublock origin. I also set secure dns.

Edit: Sometimes i find the providers are slow so i try a different one.

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I can give stricter DNS a try, but I have the same issue in Chrome.

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I can’t speak for Chrome. I only suggested that because i assumed you were using Firefox. I do not use Chrome. I do have Chromium installed and use it occasionally. Chrome came from Chromium open source. I prefer using it verses Chrome.

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So, I’ve set the stricter DNS, but still the same. After re-boot, 2.5 - 3 min to open any site. This is for Firefox, which I normally use. Just noted the same with Chrome, so I don’t believe it’s a browser issue

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I wouldn’t personally use Chrome. You’d be better off with Firefox or Chromium. Not Chrome.

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This is for Firefox, which I normally use. Just noted the same with Chrome, so I don’t believe it’s a browser issue.

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Did you try the different providers for DNS under Increased Protection. Sometimes i find some make the browser slow to open.

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I only have 2 choices, Cloudflare and NextDNS. Using either one doesn’t seem to make a difference.

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I think here there are 3 choices. Sometimes some of them make it slow to open a page. If that happens to me i usually try a different one. I’m pretty particular about how a computer has to work. I use the snap of a finger as my rule of thumb. With current hardware there is no reason for applications to not open immediately and load within the a snap or two of the finger.