It's a bug when it stalls out your computer for 2-3 seconds because the file picker is doing a recursive search through all of your files. Thankfully, patches

It's a bug when it stalls out your computer for 2-3 seconds because the file picker is doing a recursive search through all of your files. Thankfully, patches that fix this (along with some other bugs and anti-features) are actively maintained by community members, despite being ignored by the GNOME project. https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic