Steam web helper keeps crashing on steam launch making steam take >5 min to launch

@pdestefa, you are probably experiencing what bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6713 describes: [1]

It’ll appear in gnome-abrt in a fairly nondescript manner:

Crash information is recorded:

However, it can’t be reported:

           PID: 10951 (steamwebhelper)
           UID: 1000 (RokeJulianLockhart)
           GID: 1000 (RokeJulianLockhart)
        Signal: 11 (SEGV)
     Timestamp: Mon 2025-03-10 11:12:35 GMT (12h ago)
  Command Line: ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/RokeJulianLockhart/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=7822 -buildid=1738026274 -steamid=76561198832168690 -logdir=/home/RokeJulianLockhart/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=3 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/RokeJulianLockhart/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/RokeJulianLockhart/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -no-restart-on-ui-mode-change --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/RokeJulianLockhart/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --enable-features=PlatformHEVCDecoderSupport --disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC
    Executable: /home/RokeJulianLockhart/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper
 Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-steam@7e313dba6da44239b5a7eb5aa63cee5a.service
          Unit: user@1000.service
     User Unit: app-steam@7e313dba6da44239b5a7eb5aa63cee5a.service
         Slice: user-1000.slice
     Owner UID: 1000 (RokeJulianLockhart)
       Boot ID: ea3ab6d037ca4a06b422ead5aa0838ac
    Machine ID: b4f0bef5ffd640fba0ab31fdaa2820b8
      Hostname: Beedell.RokeJulianLockhart.desktop.SSV2AY
       Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.steamwebhelper.1000.ea3ab6d037ca4a06b422ead5aa0838ac.10951.1741605155000000.zst (present)
  Size on Disk: 7.1M
       Message: Process 10951 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.
                
                Stack trace of thread 11068:
                #0  0x0000000000000000 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64


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