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Firefox 136 Custom Homepage Custom Shortcut Image URL Super SLOW!

mliving — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:06:17 GMT

Most of my Firefox Home Content links use a single Custom Image URL for the icon and they take an awful long time to load since ungradeing to 136. Previous versions had a slow load the very first time after install and then were instant until I changed or updated the icon.

Is there no way Firefox can't cache these icons?

Either way there is a huge difference in load times with 136.

Re: Firefox 136 Custom Homepage Custom Shortcut Image URL Super SLOW!

mliving — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:16:11 GMT

Just wanted to add that it isn't the server I'm storing the icons on. Ping tests show the response time is the same as www.apple.com.

Re: Firefox 136 Custom Homepage Custom Shortcut Image URL Super SLOW!

Boobieta — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:50:35 GMT

Hi, this is an old "battle". I've already gone through this with them. You can find the thread on bugzilla:

Https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1870342

The TLDR is: you open firefox, wait for all images to load, go to your profile folder, open the folder "Thumbnails", select all files (these are the cached images) right click -> properties -> mark as read only.

Next time you start the browser the images are already cached.

I know, kinda dumb the need to do this but it was the way i solved it.

Anytime i add another custom image, i need to make that as read only too.