Firefox-Chrome-Select-Files-Ubuntu-24.04

Fix slow “Select Files” in Firefox or Chrome on Ubuntu 24.04

As a blogger, I regularly load plenty of photos, but in recent months, the Select Files option has been really slow in Firefox on Ubuntu 24.04, and I sometimes had to wait for several seconds or even minutes before the Files selection window would finally show up. It looked to be worse the more I used the Select Files button in my WordPress dashboard.

Firefox-Chrome-Select-Files-Ubuntu-24.04

It would not only be an issue in WordPress, though, and it would happen on any website where you could upload files. Saving as from Firefox exhibited the same behavior. I was surprised switching to Chrome didn’t help, so it must have been an Ubuntu issue. The solution was to uninstall one package, as one user explained on Launchpad:

I hope it can help others too.


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