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Youtube and other webpages EXTREMELY SLOW started today after 1 1/2 years of usage

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Hayden N
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As the subject says Firefox very suddenly started giving me terrible loading times, despite all the sites working perfectly fine on other devices and browsers. Issue continued with troubleshooting mode, not sure where to go from here. I will open youtube, it won't load about 5 thumbnails, I click on a video and it sets it to 140p and then it still lags the entire video as if I was using 1kbps internet. I tested my wifi connection and its having no problems. Something similar happened when I used to use Opera GX, it was fine for a long time and then one day terrible performance. Please let me know where to go from here. Windows 11 Pro.

As the subject says Firefox very suddenly started giving me terrible loading times, despite all the sites working perfectly fine on other devices and browsers. Issue continued with troubleshooting mode, not sure where to go from here. I will open youtube, it won't load about 5 thumbnails, I click on a video and it sets it to 140p and then it still lags the entire video as if I was using 1kbps internet. I tested my wifi connection and its having no problems. Something similar happened when I used to use Opera GX, it was fine for a long time and then one day terrible performance. Please let me know where to go from here. Windows 11 Pro.

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I did a full reinstall and it fixed it. Really weird problem and I'd probably do the above reply if you aren't comfortable reinstalling it

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Hayden N
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I also tried refreshing it. That didn't do anything either. Is a reinstall the only option?

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I did a full reinstall and it fixed it. Really weird problem and I'd probably do the above reply if you aren't comfortable reinstalling it

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