Description of problem: Clicking on a hyperlink in a non-browser application (e.g. the terminal) causes the entire screen to freeze for a few seconds before normal service resumes (and the URL is opened). There is also a CPU spike in gnome-shell, so something is spinning. Target browser is Firefox. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.28.2-1.fc28.x86_64 How reproducible: Frequently. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Terminal and Firefox. 2. Type a URL into the terminal. 3. Right click on it, select Open Link. Actual results: Delay, CPU spin. Expected results: Opening a hyperlink is not turned into a computationally intensive operation.
Probably a duplicate of Bug #1575281. I was experiencing this issue too, though for me it seems to have been fixed since upgrade to Fedora 29 with GNOME 3.30.
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