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Ahhhh, indeed! I changed the hostname in /etc/hostname a while ago, but I was not aware that I also need to apply this change to /etc/hosts. I have done this now, and the issue with Firefox and apt/aptitude starting slowly is now gone. It's interesting that I have changed /etc/hostname without changing /etc/hosts in the past on (non-virtual) machines, but never observed this issue. Anyway, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for steering me to the solution!

>> Could you share details on what the host Mac configuration is, what the VM configuration, etc. Host: MacBook Air M2, macOS 13.5, VMware Fusion Player 13.0.2. Guest: 3D acceleration enabled with 8 GB memory, network adapter = "share with my Mac" The vmx file of the machine is attached to this post.   >> Where do you have your VM located? Internal disk or external disk? HDD or SSD? APFS or HFS+ formatted? On the internal SSD of the laptop, APFS formatted.   >> Do you have any A/V installed on the Mac. If so, is it set to exclude virtual machines from scanning? Not sure what you mean by A/V. Audio/Video?   >> Do you have open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop packages installed in the VM? Yes   >> Is the VM running with X11 or Wayland (is environment variable XDG_SESSION_TYPE set ti wayland)? Wayland   >> What is the virtual machine's networking type set to? Is it possible that you have a bottleneck with your network connectivity? The networking is set to "share with my Mac". To test the network bottleneck idea I ran a few ping commands in the guest/VM, and this did not show any delays at all.