** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1530366 Title: 1 second lag when opening URLs from the command line Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When you, or another application, attempts to open a URL in Chromium, there is a very perceptible delay: over 1 second on my modern i7/ssds/>16gb ram desktop. e.g. chromium-browser http://google.com or: xdg-open http://google.com This is annoying. It doesn't happen with Chrome Stable Channel, nor with Debian's Chromium packaging. This has become significantly worse since Chromium 45. -- I had a go at diagnosing this on the Chrome upstream bug tracker: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=569437 In summary: Chromium in Ubuntu is built with dynamic linking, which is apparently a big surprise to the Chromium people, as it is known to cause issues. Specifically, just loading libraries (like `ldd -r`) takes 900ms+, instead of the <100ms expected. This doesn't show up well in Chrome tracing, as it has to happen before Chrome tracing can start. chrome-stable: % time ldd -r /opt/google/chrome/chrome | wc -l 81 0.02s user 0.01s system 84% cpu 0.038 total chromium-browser from Ubuntu: % time ldd -r /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser | wc -l 201 0.89s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.909 total The choice to go shared_library is only in Ubuntu (i.e. not Debian). The debian/rules file in the package contains: 147 # Do this for every architecture. More than 4GB of memory is too much to expect 148 # of builders. 149 COMPONENT_SHARED_LIB_BUILD := 1 150 151 ifeq (1,$(COMPONENT_SHARED_LIB_BUILD)) 152 BROWSER_GYP_DEFINES += component=shared_library 153 FFMPEG_GYP_DEFINES += component=shared_library 154 endif -- Please remove this customisation and Make opening links Great Again. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: chromium-browser 47.0.2526.73-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1215 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-040300-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 31 15:25:30 2015 Desktop-Session: 'xsession' '/etc/xdg/xdg-xsession:/etc/xdg/xdg-xsession:/etc/xdg' '/usr/share/xsession:/usr/share/xsession:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/' DetectedPlugins: Env: 'None' 'None' InstalledPlugins: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: => libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so (size: 18888 bytes, mtime: Mon Oct 19 13:43:03 2015) Load-Avg-1min: 0.55 Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.1% MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.3.0-040300-generic root=UUID=672510b8-afb9-425f-a58d-bd325f7c987a ro rootflags=subvol=@ SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-08-28 (124 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 12/19/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1805 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: P8Z77-V dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1805:bd12/19/2012:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnP8Z77-V:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n' modified.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: [modified] modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted] mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2015-03-08T12:05:01.795251 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1530366/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
