Marc Riddell wrote:

Friends,

This is my second cry for help with this problem. Editing the English Wikipedia has become nearly impossible for me these days. On initial opening it can take as long as 45 seconds for the site to come on, and it can take another 30 seconds to change pages. On opening, the first thing to show is the outline of the donations box and nothing else. Then, after another 30 or so the page opens. This started happening after the donations box was added to the site. Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks,

Marc Riddell

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Hmmm, I have noticed things slightly slower than usual, I wouldn't necessarily put it down to the donations thing and the problem seems to be only in Firefox. Perhaps part of the javascript or style sheet for the donations that takes Firefox a long time to handle or is it something totally unrelated?

G Donato

Marc Riddell wrote:

Friends,

This is my second cry for help with this problem. Editing the English Wikipedia has become nearly impossible for me these days. On initial opening it can take as long as 45 seconds for the site to come on, and it can take another 30 seconds to change pages. On opening, the first thing to show is the outline of the donations box and nothing else. Then, after another 30 or so the page opens. This started happening after the donations box was added to the site. Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks,

Marc Riddell

As you're blaming the donation box, you can block it (and access to meta with it) by adding to your [[en:Hosts_file]] a fake entry for meta.wikimedia.org pointing it to 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1...

You can also block JavaScripts (which removes the donation box delay and also of other scripts)