I've been using DDB for about a year now and it has never performed well in FF, but for at least the last few months it has been unusably slow (sometimes minutes to load all pages). Other sites for me work just fine. I asked my players and they told me they have no performance issues with DDB. On a whim, I tried FF in privacy mode and DDB was blazing fast.
This led me to believe I had a misbehaving plugin, so I restarted FF in safe mode (all plugins disabled) and it was still slow. I logged out, cleared my cookies, cleared my cache, restarted FF and logged in again - still horribly slow. I then took the hard step of refreshing FF (removing all plugins and resetting all defaults) - still slow.
I tried MS Edge and it is slow there was well (20-30 seconds or so to load pages), both in and out of privacy mode. I'm not sure if that is usual or not, I don't normally use Edge. I have used Chrome in the past (don't have it installed currently) but I prefer the privacy afforded by FF.
In sum, I can't seem to pinpoint what FF doesn't like about DDB outside of privacy mode, but it is crazy slow. FF in privacy mode is okay if I must use it, but it is a bit of a drag to lose my open tabs and have to re-login all the time. I keep FF and Windows 10 up-to-date.
Anyone have other ideas for what I can look at? Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks!
Update: If I look at FF developer tools it seems that cdn.optimizely.com (https://cdn.optimizely.com/public/17126690382/s/dndbeyond2020.js) is the bottleneck. It seems to be timing out. In private mode, it seems like it is blocked outright and the page does not wait on it.
In Edge, it looks like google-analytics (analytics.js) is taking 20+ seconds to load.
I fixed it. If I block tracking content for dndbeyond (Strict Mode in FF) then it sees the same massive speedup that you get in Privacy Mode. By default tracking content is only blocked in Privacy Mode.
It seems to be caused by dndbeyond2020.js, analytics.js, and/or google tag manager. These are blocked in strict mode.
Hi,
I've been using DDB for about a year now and it has never performed well in FF, but for at least the last few months it has been unusably slow (sometimes minutes to load all pages). Other sites for me work just fine. I asked my players and they told me they have no performance issues with DDB. On a whim, I tried FF in privacy mode and DDB was blazing fast.
This led me to believe I had a misbehaving plugin, so I restarted FF in safe mode (all plugins disabled) and it was still slow. I logged out, cleared my cookies, cleared my cache, restarted FF and logged in again - still horribly slow. I then took the hard step of refreshing FF (removing all plugins and resetting all defaults) - still slow.
I tried MS Edge and it is slow there was well (20-30 seconds or so to load pages), both in and out of privacy mode. I'm not sure if that is usual or not, I don't normally use Edge. I have used Chrome in the past (don't have it installed currently) but I prefer the privacy afforded by FF.
In sum, I can't seem to pinpoint what FF doesn't like about DDB outside of privacy mode, but it is crazy slow. FF in privacy mode is okay if I must use it, but it is a bit of a drag to lose my open tabs and have to re-login all the time. I keep FF and Windows 10 up-to-date.
Anyone have other ideas for what I can look at? Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks!
Update:
If I look at FF developer tools it seems that cdn.optimizely.com (https://cdn.optimizely.com/public/17126690382/s/dndbeyond2020.js) is the bottleneck. It seems to be timing out. In private mode, it seems like it is blocked outright and the page does not wait on it.
In Edge, it looks like google-analytics (analytics.js) is taking 20+ seconds to load.
I fixed it. If I block tracking content for dndbeyond (Strict Mode in FF) then it sees the same massive speedup that you get in Privacy Mode. By default tracking content is only blocked in Privacy Mode.
It seems to be caused by dndbeyond2020.js, analytics.js, and/or google tag manager. These are blocked in strict mode.