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I imagine this is mostly due to Firefox's JS engine, but I commonly run across articles that take an extremely long time to load the new VisualEditor interface. For example, "Domestic violence" and "Feminism" take about 30 seconds. Really long articles like "World War II" take over a minute. The interface loads in about half that time in Safari. I'm using Firefox 21. -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: normal

I imagine this is mostly due to Firefox's JS engine, but I commonly run across articles that take an extremely long time to load the new VisualEditor interface. For example, "Domestic violence" and "Feminism" take about 30 seconds. Really long articles like "World War II" take over a minute. The interface loads in about half that time in Safari. I'm using Firefox 21. Comparative loading figures: | Article | FF32, 2014-09 | Cr37, 2014-09 | | Barack Obama | 17.6s | 17.2s | | Cat | 16.4s | 16.0s | | Beyoncé Knowles | 25.4s | 7.5s | | India | 26.8s | 5.6s | | Richard Nixon | 9.9s | 5.6s | | Europe | 28.3s | 7.1s | | English language | 18.2 | 8.0s |

I imagine this is mostly due to Firefox's JS engine, but I commonly run across articles that take an extremely long time to load the new VisualEditor interface. For example, "Domestic violence" and "Feminism" take about 30 seconds. Really long articles like "World War II" take over a minute. The interface loads in about half that time in Safari. I'm using Firefox 21. --------------------------Comparative loading figures: | Article | FF32, 2014-09 | Cr37, 2014-09 | | Barack Obama | 17.6s | 17.2s | | Cat | 16.4s | 16.0s | | Beyoncé Knowles | 25.4s | 7.5s | | India | 26.8s | 5.6s | | Richard Nixon | 9.9s | 5.6s | | Europe | 28.3s | 7.1s | **Version**: unspecified| English language | 18.2 | 8.0s | **Severity**: normal