Firefox is a rather memory hungry application.
It could be that you system has to swap some processes to disk in order to satisfy the needs of firefox. But even then 45 seconds is rather long.
You could compare the output of top and swapctl before launching firefox and after firefox has started. Do you see any major differences?
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