Appimage Speed up start

[Member ModdIt]

In my trials the application start could be speeded by unpacking in to a directory home and creating a personal starter.
One example. LibreWolf
The appimage takes a couple of seconds to start on my i5 quad core system, unpacked it starts in an instant.
The waiting time is due decompressing the package.

How, just run the appimage with following –appimage-extract.

Caveat if you have a rarity, “very old appimage” the command might not work.

Being able to examine the contents of an appimage and remove anything unneeded or unwanted is also useful.
In case of LibreWolf I removed the hidden form autofill and screenshot plugins as well as pingsender, the latter
(claimed) unused unless explicitly allowed, removed–for sure no pinging to mommyzilla.

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Good to know, Thx

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Oh this is awesome thanks! I found that I needed to link to LibreWolf’s “AppRun” file inside the squashfs-root directory that’s created when the appimage is extracted. So, my link command is:
$ ln -s ~/LibreWolf/squashfs-root/AppRun ~/.local/bin/librewolf

Each time a new LibreWolf Appimage is released, I’ll be able to replace the old squashfs-root directory with the newly extracted one, remove pingsender, remove formautofill and screenshot from the browser/features folder, and just keep rolling along.

And yes it does open instantly now. Very very cool.

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