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0 pointsriskable7y ago0 comments

Are you experiencing this pause on Windows, Mac OS, or Linux? I ask because my employer has some crap McAfee security theatre software installed (Windows) that causes this same issue for me for any application that loads any large-ish file (or large number of files) on startup. Since Firefox is going to load a bazillion things from cache on startup it (or similar software) could be causing the problem.

I had support temporarily disable McAfee's "on-access scanner" thing so I could test it and the problem went away immediately. Everything was nice and snappy again!

Of course, they turned it back on after the test...

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nostalgk7y ago

I'm experiencing it exclusively on Windows, as I don't use Linux for web browsing. I don't have any anti virus other than MalwareBytes and Windows Defender, and I've completely turned off all forms of caching for Firefox in a vain attempt to fix this.

I guess maybe it could be Windows Defender? Doesn't quite explain why the Firefox process is the one that is sucking literally my entire r/w bandwidth, slowing my computer to a crawl and inhibiting all OS functions. Defender does this every once in a while, randomly, but it doesn't show up during Firefox's start-up.

It works fine after like a minute of warm-up, but I still think that's unacceptable on an SSD. Still gonna use Firefox of course...

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