Having the same issue on Windows 10. Did some testing with different Geany versions, different install and file locations and two different machines:

Geany versions

• 1.37.1 --> slow
• 1.37 --> slow
• 1.36 --> slow
• 1.36 portable --> fast
• 1.35 --> fast

22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Geany 1.37.1, German_Germany.1252
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: GTK 2.24.32, GLib 2.66.2
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: OS: Windows 10 1909
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: System data dir: C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\data
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: User config dir: C:\Users\lupus\AppData\Roaming\geany
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: System plugin path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\lib\geany
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Arduino (63).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Clojure (64).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype CUDA (65).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Cython (66).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Genie (67).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Graphviz (68).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Groovy (69).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype JSON (70).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Kotlin (71).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Nim (72).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Scala (73).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Swift (74).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype TypeScript (75).
22:28:45: Geany INFO		: Added filetype AutoHotkey (76).
22:28:45: GLib-GIO DEBUG	: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation winhttp (GWinHttpVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
22:28:46: Geany INFO		: unknown : None (UTF-8)

22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Geany 1.35, German_Germany.1252
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: GTK 2.24.32, GLib 2.60.1
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: System data dir: C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany_135\data
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: User config dir: C:\Users\lupus\AppData\Roaming\geany
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: System plugin path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany_135\lib\geany
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Arduino (61).
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Clojure (62).
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype CUDA (63).
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Cython (64).
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Genie (65).
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Graphviz (66).
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype JSON (67).
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Scala (68).
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: Added filetype AutoHotkey (69).
22:28:40: GLib-GIO DEBUG	: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation winhttp (GWinHttpVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
22:28:40: Geany INFO		: unknown : None (UTF-8)

11:32:03: Geany INFO		: Using alternate configuration directory   <-----   PORTABLE
11:32:03: Geany INFO		: Geany 1.36, German_Germany.1252
11:32:03: Geany INFO		: GTK 2.24.32, GLib 2.60.6
11:32:03: Geany INFO		: System data dir: F:\PortableApps\GeanyPortable\App\Geany\data
11:32:03: Geany INFO		: User config dir: F:\PortableApps\GeanyPortable\Data\settings
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: System plugin path: F:\PortableApps\GeanyPortable\App\Geany\lib\geany
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Arduino (61).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Clojure (62).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype CUDA (63).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Cython (64).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Genie (65).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Graphviz (66).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Groovy (67).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype JSON (68).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Kotlin (69).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Nim (70).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Scala (71).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Swift (72).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype TypeScript (73).
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: Added filetype AutoHotkey (74).
11:32:04: GLib-GIO DEBUG	: _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation winhttp (GWinHttpVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
11:32:04: Geany INFO		: unknown : None (UTF-8)

Notice the different GLib versions. GTK is identical.

Slow vs. fast

With "slow" I mean the longer load times for opening (new) files, which I first realized after upgrading from 1.35 to 1.37. With "fast" I mean the normal load times from 1.35.

As already mentioned, the problem is not the startup time of Geany itself, but the time to open a file. This applies to opening a text file from an arbitrary location on disk, but also opening a new and empty file via ctrl+n.

In my opinion, there is nothing special about opening sessions/projects, except the fact that sessions usually include multiple files, which means one slowdown per file in the saved session.

Plugins and settings

Tried with plugins and with deactivating all plugins via settings -> general menu. No difference.
Tried with and without files.save_config_on_file_change. No difference.

Location and machine

Staying on the same machine (tested at work), it makes no difference if I run Geany (or load files) from the local SSD, HDD, USB flash drive or network share. At least the Geany/file location impact is much smaller than the difference between the slow and fast Geany versions. On the machine at home I did not test with different install locations, but expect the same result.

My machine at home shows faster startup/load times in general. The slow/fast version difference is still noticeable, albeit less pronounced.

Portable version

This really puzzles me. It was the last test I did. Before, I was sure hat something must have changed between 1.35 and 1.36 (untouched by changes introduced in 1.37 and 1.37.1). But than I discovered that PortableApp's 1.36 version has the fast load times from 1.35 and not the slow ones from 1.36 non-portable!

Unfortunately, it seems like they don't offer 1.37 or 1.37.1 yet and 1.34 not anymore. 1.33 is still available, but I did not test it, because I expect fast times as with 1.35.

So far, I only tested 1.36 portable at work, but will test at home later.

The big question is: Why do 1.36 portable and non-portable behave differently? With the portable version, one does not start Geany directly, but with a launcher executable GeanyPortable.exe. The launcher does some "portable magic" beforehand, than loads geany.exe, and does some cleanup afterwards (as far as I understand the portable apps system).

Anything else I can do to narrow down the problem?

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