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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Nope, it’s very snappy for me. I use both Firefox and Mull on Android with ublock.

Clear cache/app data and try again?

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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

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

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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

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yeah that addon hits hard

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

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

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Mine has always been super snappy, so something’s definately off I’d say.

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No.

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I recently switched to Firefox even on mobile and I didn’t notice any slowness

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