WTF is going on with Chrome under Windows?

[Murph]

Lately, Chrome is taking 90-120 seconds to load the Google page, or any page for that matter.  Now I know that under Manifest V.3 ad blockers will cease to work, and that is Google's plan to kill ad blockers, have they started the roll out on this?  Firefox using the same ad blockers I use (Ghostery, NoScript, and AdGuard) seems to work fine, and stops YouTube's nonsense as well.  Anyone else having issues with Chrome loading with adblockers enabled?

[Ssnake]

And thus, the enshittification of browsers takes the next step.

[Murph]

And only on Windows, it is working fine under Linux.

[Ivanhoe]

I avoid using plain Chrome or Firefox except when absolutely necessary. Try Iridium instead of Chrome. 

 

 

[lucklucky]

Yeah i also don't use it, but the derivatives like Vivaldi, Opera, Brave

[Tim the Tank Nut]

Pale Moon (latest version) is crazy slow in Windows too.  I assume  its a Chrome based product.

[Ivanhoe]

Could be DNS (let me beat Snake to the standard bromide; "Its always DNS!"). Frequently, when it takes forever to load a new web page, its because your default DNS server is super slow. If you've left defaults along, your primary DNS server is probably that of your router, which does passthru to your ISP. ISPs are notorious for craptastic DNS (and collecting and selling your browsing history). 

Try changing your primary DNS server to 8.8.8.8 and see if that helps.

p.s. Pale Moon is a Firefox derivative, sort of. 

p.p.s. if your browser is configured to use DoH (DNS over HTTPS), your browser will ignore your OS's settings and send queries directly to Google's/Mozilla's default DoH server, which may have thrown a connecting rod recently.