Welcome to the sphere, sjohn, and thanks for the suggestion. I don't think I was using a beta, I think I was using a final version 3.5 . Regardless of that a lot of people have complained about slow loading in the recent past - some have suggested that it's due to ipv6 and to disable that. That didn't work for me and in fact Swiftfox is now suffering from nearly as slow loading. I don't know what's going on but I haven't got to the bottom of it yet. If you have a good solution let us know.