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Re:Firefox 73 by inviromentalist on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @02:23PM (#22301692)
It's exactly how it sounds. Reddit loads in 1s on chrome and 30s in Firefox.

I used to blame my computer for not having enough free space, but now that I have 200GB of SSD free, I suppose I need to blame the software at some point.

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Re:Firefox 73 by sp332 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:06PM (#22302233)
Sounds like something isn't loading and Firefox waits for it to time out.
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Re:Firefox 73 by magicalhippo on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:51PM (#22304276)
Not a Chrome user, but didn't they recently bypass the system DNS in favor for their own? If so, a slow DNS could explain it as well.
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Re:Firefox 73 by sp332 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:40PM (#22304593)
Yeah but that's experimental and it's supposed to have failsafes and fallbacks. I guess it's possible that it malfunctioned, and I'd never rule out DNS more generally though.
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Re:Firefox 73 by magicalhippo on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:20PM (#22304797)
I meant the other way around: Google's DNS being fast and the local one being slow. At least I've experienced on more than one occasion my ISP DNS taking forever to resolve some domain where Cloudflare's or Google's DNS responded quickly.
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Re:Firefox 73 by sp332 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:30PM (#22304884)
Oh I misunderstood because Firefox also started experimenting with DOH lately. So it could be either, yeah!
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