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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Decades old Firefox user here.

    In the last week or two both Discord as well as Google Maps started not to work, they basically freeze up during/after they load, almost freezing up the whole browser as well (struggle to close the tabs they are on).

    The weird thing is they both always used to work great up to just very recently, and nothing else has changed on my desktop, except for the normal OS updates semi daily.

    (Speaking of the desktop version, on Fedora Linux.)

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      1 year ago

      Google already confirmed they were causing deliberate delays on YouTube videos for people detected using adblock. Extending the enshitification is all they have now, sold their soul to steal a buck.

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      1 year ago

      Used discord on Firefox within the last week, no issues detected.

      Disable all your plugins and check if this still happens, a few months ago I ran into an issue where every tab would load for a good few seconds before actually opening, even super lightweight stuff. Turned out to be caused by an addon that was umantained because the maintainer passed away.

      Don’t remember which addon it was, but I can try and remember / search if you are interested.