I also have the same problem on Ubuntu 24.04.2 when accessing files with Files, saving files in Chrome, Thunderbird, ...
I did the suggestion in comment #18 and it may have made a marginal improvement (hard to tell with the variable nature of this issue) but certainly hasn't fully resolved it -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2018539 Title: File selector extremely slow To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/2018539/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs