[UPDATED] PHPStorm very slow to startup. Anyone else getting this too?

Hello everyone!

Macbook Pro 2010 (i7 with 8GB RAM)
Mac OSX 10.7.5 (Lion)
PHPStorm 5.0.4

I bought PHPStorm a few months ago and have been very happy with it.  My only major gripe is that it takes "ages" to load up.  It takes almost exactly 2m30s to start every time.  I suspect something is waiting on a timeout but I've no idea what.  Here are the logs (I can supply more if needed):


2012-12-11 15:23:07,843 [      0]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main - ------------------------------------------------------ IDE STARTED ------------------------------------------------------
2012-12-11 15:23:07,987 [    144]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main - IDE: JetBrains PhpStorm (build #PS-121.390, 30 Oct 2012 00:00)
2012-12-11 15:23:07,987 [    144]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main - JRE: 1.6.0_37-b06-434-11M3909 (Apple Inc.)
2012-12-11 15:23:07,987 [    144]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main - JVM: 20.12-b01-434 (Apple Inc.)
2012-12-11 15:23:07,987 [    144]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main - JNA library loaded (64-bit) in 0 ms
2012-12-11 15:23:08,050 [    207]   INFO -        #com.intellij.idea.Main - Snappy library loaded (1.0.4) in 63 ms
2012-12-11 15:23:39,006 [  31163]   INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Cannot find optional descriptor coffee-jsintentions.xml
2012-12-11 15:24:42,550 [  94707]   INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - 40 plugins initialized in 94223 ms
2012-12-11 15:24:42,551 [  94708]   INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Loaded plugins:IDEA CORE, Apache config (.htaccess) support (121.390), CSS Support, JavaScript Support (1.0), JavaScript Intention Power Pack (0.9.4), Inspection-JS (2.0), XPathView + XSLT Support (4), IntelliLang (8.0), UML Support (1.0), LESS support, Remote Hosts Access (0.1), SASS support, JavaScript Debugger (1.0), LiveEdit (1.0), PHP (121.390), Command Line Tool Support (121.390), Database Support (1.0), Framework MVC Structure Support (121.390), Git Integration (8.1), Task Management (1.0), GitHub, HTML Tools (2.0), Phing Support (121.390), QuirksMode, ReStructuredText Support, SQL support (1.0), W3C Validators (2.0), YAML
2012-12-11 15:24:42,551 [  94708]   INFO - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - Disabled plugins: ASP (0.1), CoffeeScript (2.0), Base Cucumber (1.0), CVS Integration (11), HAML, hg4idea (10.0), Java Server Pages Integration (1.0), GNU GetText files support (*.po) (VERSION), Perforce Integration (2.0), Refactor-X (2.01), Subversion Integration (1.1), XSLT-Debugger (1.4)

So what actually happens:

1. I click the icon to start up PHPStorm.  Nothing happens for exactly (suspiciously exactly) 60 seconds.
2. Then at 15:23:07 the loading screen appears with the loading progress bar stuck very close to the start (at about the 3% mark).
3. 30 seconds later (15:23:39) the loading bar moves quickly to about 33% full.  Here it stops again and I wait for just over 60 seconds.  
4. Then (at 15:24:42) the progress bar rapidly fills up to 100% and PHPStorm loads.  At this point I see a notification from my OXS firewall asking me to allow PHPStorm to recieve incoming connections which I accept.

I think that the inital 60 second wait, then the 30 second wait and the following 60 second wait are all timeouts of some description.  I have no idea what for though.

The fact that the OSX firewall asks me to accept incoming connections after PHPStorm loads makes me think it may have been blocking it during the loading phase and hence the waiting.  Assuming that is the problem, despite adding PHPStorm to my firewall settings permanently this notice still displays everytime.  There is a problem with apps not being signed (or something, I don't really understand) and so OSX displays this notice.

Anyway, I have totally ASSUMED that it's the OSX causing this long load up time.  Perhaps PHPStorm is just this slow for everyone?

BTW once PHPStorm has loaded it's very fast and I have no problems with it.

Any help is gratefully recieved.  Especially if you can identify the real problem here and not just my speculation.

[UPDATE: I just quickly deleted PHPStorm from my Applications directory, downloaded a new copy and reinstalled it.  Apparently that is the typical way to fix that firewall "netowrk connections" notification and sure enough it worked!  No more notifications.  However, everytime I start PHPStorm and the same timeouts are occuring!  It seems disabling the firewall is the only way to stop these timeouts from happening.  Arggh!!]

Message was edited by: Red Leader