It’s actually been confirmed that the 5-second wait happens regardless of browser. Even with Chrome.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, sure. That’s why it happens on Firefox even without an adblocker, and goes away when using a user agent switcher to claim you’re using Chrome instead of Firefox while using an adblocker. Because it’s toooooooootally about adblocking.
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Goronmon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How thoroughly was this tested? Because you can summarize a lot of these types of timing differences with one word.
Caching.
And from my experience people tend to overlook this when running casual tests like this.
MuThyme@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is 100% anecdotal of course, but I’ve noticed weirdly inconsistent behaviour. I have one tab I permanently keep open for YouTube and that one loads videos really fast. If I open a second tab by following a link from that main tab, then it partly loads the site and sits there for a weirdly long time before any content even appears.
I’ve got a really fast connection too, and nothing else was having issues. This whole thing is bizarre.
1bluepixel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I tried this exact scenario and didn’t see any difference in load times. I’m using an ad blocker and it’s definitely sluggish, but switching to a Chrome user agent made no difference.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, people seem to be having very different experiences with it. It might genuinely be them rolling out different versions to different people to bug test it or something like that. Even if that’s the case I still think its probably not unintentional that it hurts Firefox more. They do that too much for me to believe it’s an accident.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s hard to tell these days when there’s so much A/B testing and stuff going on. I haven’t run into this at all personally.