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by OrderlyTiamat 2789 days ago
He's not the only one. It's a recurring comment here on hacker news and a problem I've encountered as well, and I'm running the latest stable release.
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allenz 2789 days ago
Same here, I run the latest Firefox on both Windows and Linux. Gmail always takes at least 5 seconds to load.
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cpeterso 2789 days ago
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rtpg 2789 days ago
I think that Chrome also suffers on this front? But it's better at doing pre-fetching than Firefox is

This could really just be that part. I have a hard time imagining explicit sabotage of FF on the gmail frontend. The likeliest explanation is that perf testing and the like only happens in Chrome

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asdfasgasdgasdg 2789 days ago
The classic question to ask at this point is whether this affects you with a fresh install, or only once you have added all your extensions?
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