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I have noticed over the last few days (roughly since this weekend) that Firefox is not loading any Web pages. I don't seem to have any trouble on other browsers (currently on Microsoft Edge to post this), and it only seems to be on my home laptop.

I don't get an error message or anything like that. It just takes its sweet time loading any links or URL's. Sometimes, the tab or page acts like it's buffering. Sometimes, the address bar doesn't even show that I've typed in a URL after I've hit Enter. Most of the time, I just have a blank white screen.

I have tried refreshing Firefox, I tried restarting my device once or twice, I've put Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode more times than I can count at this point. I've even un-installed and re-installed Firefox twice now in the last few days. Nothing seems to solve the issue.

I have started to delay Firefox updates as much as possible. Takes hours to get things back to normal, i.e. it appears to be done and installed, but access to say Google just clocks and clocks and clocks. Hence, I've avoided updates as much as possible.

Hi there,

I have a remote job that requires me to swiftly do online searches and send emails. Firefox is my preferred browser, but sadly I notice that it tends to sometimes be slow in loading pages. Any ideas for how I can improve it, or how Firefox can improve its performance on my machine? Here's info to help you troubleshoot:

--I always download the most recent Firefox updates when prompted. --My machine is a Lenovo with a lot of memory running on Windows 11 (I think), so the machine itself runs really fast on other browsers, such as Google Chrome. --Firefox seems to be slowest in the afternoon, which puzzled me. --I'm connected to the internet via high-speed cable, not slow WiFi.

Thank you for any help you can provide!

Best regards, Suzanne [edited email from public support forum]

Hello, Yesterday I opened Firefox and found that websites were loading very slowly, to the point where some websites would time me out. This is only occurring on Firefox, I checked Microsoft Edge, and Google Chrome, they both worked fine. I am running Windows 10, and the latest version of Firefox I have run a clean reinstall and still no dice.

running version 142.0.1 on windows 10 on a pc. With the latest three updates of firefox, facebook is the only site that loads very slowly. No problem on a pad or cell phone using the same isp and mozilla. What happened?.

I am a non techy and a firefox user for many many years,,, But so slow loading pages.. I quit fiorefox and come back and its OK for awhile and then slow again... I've deleted cache, i've started in safe mode. and refreshed and lost my theme... Before I go to Chrome help this non techy... running a pretty new imac and sequoia and will go to tahow soon. Can you help?

The last few weeks in particular Firefox has bogged down and will not load webpages. I have to close and restart to get it to work at all. I have used Firefox for 20 years as my preferred browser and have never experienced anything like this. I am a MacBook Pro user who is not a google fan so I try to avoid Chrome but have had to use Chrome to get access to things while Firefox is floundering.

sites do not open or take a very long time showing waiting for fonts.googleapis.com on bottom left corner.

I have searched the web with and got answers related to Firefox 98 or suggested settnigs that do not clear the problem

I've had Firefox as my main browser on my Macbooks for over 20 years. It is becoming increasingly frustrating working on something and realizing the computer is slowing down when loading websites, only to realize there is yet another update that requires the restarting of the browser. This is especially annoying when on a Zoom meeting for instance, and trying to open a website.

I usually have 80+ tabs open across 4-5 windows. When restarting the browser, I now have to open each tab to log into whatever site I was in.

Why does Firefox have to do SOOOOOOO many frequent updates that require restarting the browser, and why does it have to slow down your computer when there is an update?

It's like you have no choice but to update it. Would it be possible to NOT slow down your computer, but give some kind of notification, say by email, when there is an important update?

SUPER FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apologies in advance if I use terminology incorrectly.

I've had this strange but intermittent issue for a while (through multiple Firefox versions) where pages will take a long time to load. I haven't timed loads exactly but I can confidently say it's a minimum of 10 seconds. The problem with diagnosing this issue is it's very intermittent; I can go hours or on a rare occassion days without it happening (I think, maybe I've just not registered some of the times it's happened). I have yet to try disabling all addons because of this.

Random quirks about the issue:

• It only happens on navigation to a new domain (or to a domain from a new tab). Once a domain has loaded, I don't have an issue on said domain for a while.
• It isn't tab specific. I can open a new tab in the same window and they will both take the same amount of time to load, often finishing at the exact same time.
• While waiting for a page to load, I can open a Private Browsing window, paste the URL, and the page will load immediately without issue in the Private Browsing window. This does not affect the page being loaded in the main window.
• I believe it has occurred immediately after a system restart, thus I don't believe it is related to long-running sessions.

The addons I have that don't also run in Private Browsing are:

• Augmented Steam
• BetterTTV
• Enhancer for Youtube (I can't find the addon store link?)
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• PocketTube
• Return YouTube Dislike
• SponsorBlock
• The Camelizer
• Youtube High Definition

everytime I do an update it takes forever for the tabs to load and open....if I did the vpn will my passwords also be saved and top sites be saved as I can not do fire fox top sites so have a different top site

like the title says, usually at least once a day firefox will just stop loading web pages entirely. more specifically, it gets stuck loading any page infinitely. occasionally if i wait long enough things will start loading again, but usually that time never comes and i have to restart the browser. i'm kind of a tab hoarder so restarting the browser can be annoying in itself, since i have to wait for the browser to load. i'm not really sure how to troubleshoot this with extensions and the like since i haven't noticed any trend in when the problem occurs. weirdly enough, it happened while i was typing this and while every other website fails to load, the mozilla support site is consistently fine. any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Firefox Support Team, Hello I am a Firefox user in mainland China. I'm experiencing slow webpage opening (all webpages) with Firefox, and the problem persists after disabling the doh setting on Firefox as described on Firefox support. So I tried to change the doh settings on the OS (my OS is Windows 11, which supports doh settings on the OS), when I tried to use only the doh provider (Alidns) in mainland China, Firefox could open web pages very fast, but after I added the doh provider Opendns) outside of mainland China. Firefox becomes very slow in loading web pages. This problem only occurs in Firefox, not in chrome or edge (I currently use both Alidns and Opendns, Alidns as first choice and Opendns as backup).

So I would like to ask if Firefox has a logic that determines the priority of dns usage, prioritizing one of the dns providers when there are more than one at the same time. If so, can I change this logic. Because using dns services from other regions in mainland China will encounter problems such as very high network latency, packet loss, etc., I set up different regional dns providers at the same time as a backup, and I mainly use the mainland China dns provider.

My temporary solution for now is to actively enable doh service on Firefox and customize Alidns as the service provider. This gets Firefox working, but I think it adds complexity. Best regards, someone

The above is machine translation, the original Chinese text is as follows: 火狐支持团队，你好 我是中国大陆的火狐浏览器用户。我在使用火狐浏览器时遇到了网页打开缓慢的问题（所有网页），根据火狐支持上的描述关闭火狐上的doh设置后问题依旧。于是我尝试更改了操作系统上的doh设置（我的操作系统是Windows11，支持在操作系统上设置doh），当我尝试仅使用中国大陆的doh提供商（alidns）时，火狐可以很快的打开网页，但我加入中国大陆之外的doh提供商（opendns）后。火狐加载网页就会变得非常慢。这个问题仅在火狐浏览器出现，在chrome和edge上不会出现（我当前同时使用alidns和opendns，alidns作为首选，opendns作为备用）。

所以我想询问火狐浏览器是否有判断dns使用优先级的逻辑，在同时有多个dns提供商时优先使用其中某一个。如果有，我能否更改这个逻辑。因为在中国大陆使用其他地区的dns服务会遇到网络延迟很高、丢包等问题，我同时设置不同地区的dns提供商是为了备用，主要使用的是中国大陆的dns提供商。

目前我的临时解决办法是主动开启火狐上的doh服务，并自定义alidns为服务提供商。这样能使火狐正常工作，但我认为这样增加了复杂性。 谨致问候, someone

When I try to download anything Firefox Caps my download speed at 10MB/s Other browsers don't. I tried, Edge, Chrome, Etc... they all give me access to my full Gigabit speed. I've attached 2 screenshots with a SpeedTest comparison.

Firefox: 90mbps Edge: 630mbps

Mozilla firefox browser is SOOOOOO SLOOWOWOWWWWW loading and working. Takes literally minutes after clicking open the browser for it to even finally eventually load the tabs - pages. Then it often lags, slows way down. Making it useless for people who value our time and life. 133.03 version. says its current up to date.

Please fix it so it works correctly efficiently.

I use Yahoo as my homepage and access it through Mozilla. Normally it loads in mere seconds. Last night and today it is taking extremely long to load and in some cases it has timed out. When it does load, all the pictures and other features are not included and either don't load or load much later.

I tried to load Yahoo from MIcrosoft Edge and it loaded perfectly. I am assuming there is an issue with Mozilla?

Thanks for looking into this matter and letting me know.

David Broemmelsick