Also, getting no error message. just the dot moving back and forth for several minutes

Hi Allan, apologies this is happening - it can be caused by a number of reasons including addons. Here is an article that can be helpful Let me know if that helps, also what version of Firefox are you using?

Also there was a bug with 1password (in case you are using 1password), that got fixed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1980009 Let us know if everything is ok now