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I'm not talking about an extra 10-15sec, but easily 2-3 full minutes (I've sat here with a timer checking) to load pages, sometimes not loading them at all. Particularly with login pages, but even just homepages.

Dropbox, Cloudflare, Various companies forums, My bank, Google; each of these sites and more I've had firefox either not load at all, or take so long I've been able to copy the link into Chrome, do what I need there, then come back to Firefox still 'loading' a blank white page.

I just don't understand. I want to migrate away from Chrome and use Firefox, but it's been unusably slow when it even loads anything at all.

P.S. In the time I've taken to write this (~5min) plus the time to decide to post and find this community firefox has still not loaded my cloudflare dash... (typed in the address, waited a while, gave up and came here but left it open)

/edit: I should note I have ublock installed, but I get the same results with it disabled most of the time.

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[–] asahi@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

For me it's the dark reader extension. Which slows down loading a lot. Try turning it off and compare.

There a lot of discussion about it online

[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Strange, I have dark reader but no issues with loading times.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago

Also for me. Makes everything very laggy.

Should come with a warning as you don't immediately notice it right away, but then in the following weeks you compare the loading speed of Vivaldi (that has a similar built-in function) and Firefox and you will notice the lag

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

yeah that addon hits hard

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I have the same problem and I'll try removing dark reader

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Dark reader is not the only reason, but it is also a major one. It is a performance hog even on desktop