Long waits for Firefox and SeaMonkey to respond to links from other applications

[Adam]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 6:22 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I open a web address in (for example) Thunderbird, there's a wait
> of around fifteen seconds before the web browser, already open, handles
> the address.
>
> Affected browsers:
>
> - Firefox
> - SeaMonkey
> - Waterfox.
>
> Not affected:
>
> - New Moon (Pale Moon) – the waiting period is a split-second
> - Chromium – split-second
> - Falkon – less than two seconds.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
Start thunderbird from a terminal so you can see an messages.  Sounds like
a tcp or dns timeout, so perhaps some addon.

-- 
Adam