I'm using Opera GX right now and whenever I try to open an image or video it just takes way too long to load.
Images loads about 5% per second depending on size while videos plays about 0.5 seconds before it gets loading stuck regardless of length, and keeping the video paused while it loads won't help either.

Now one thing I noticed is that if I use Edge everything loads instantly, and considering this is one of those rare cases I see Opera GX acting weird with e621 I'm not entirely sure if it's a network, browser or site issue...
I already tried disabling all my extensions and it didn't helped either.

It's the same thing if you try using it with private tabs?

Annoying suggestion but have you tried to clear the cache, download list and history? Maybe it's time for a fresh install of that browser...

notknow said:
It's the same thing if you try using it with private tabs?

Annoying suggestion but have you tried to clear the cache, download list and history? Maybe it's time for a fresh install of that browser...

funny... incognito mode actually worked
cleaning cache or site cookies didn't tho

really not sure what's wrong but I'll try to leave the fresh install as a last resource

EDIT: Disabling hardware acceleration seems to fix it but also makes other stuff have performance issues, such as my live wallpaper for new tab

Hello!

Got the exact same issue.

E621 is really slow. At first, its performance (for images) is perfectly fine, videos are still slow.
However, when I open multiple tabs to go through new images from, for example, the popular tab, loading starts to eventually slow to a crawl.
Then, even just loading a single image takes ages. This happens to me in both Firefox 132.0.1 (64-bit) and Chromium 130.0.6723.116.

Its as if e621 is rate limiting me.

It is most definitely not due to my Connection Speed, everything is fine on that end.

Disabling Hardware Acceleration is not an option, since the performance of every Website in turn slows to a crawl without it.

darn said:
Hello!

Got the exact same issue.

E621 is really slow. At first, its performance (for images) is perfectly fine, videos are still slow.
However, when I open multiple tabs to go through new images from, for example, the popular tab, loading starts to eventually slow to a crawl.
Then, even just loading a single image takes ages. This happens to me in both Firefox 132.0.1 (64-bit) and Chromium 130.0.6723.116.

Its as if e621 is rate limiting me.

It is most definitely not due to my Connection Speed, everything is fine on that end.

Disabling Hardware Acceleration is not an option, since the performance of every Website in turn slows to a crawl without it.

So I'm not the only one with this issue. Even Opera GX for mobile is slow to load videos.

A temporary fix I've found is to set video resolution to 480p, it lowers image quality but buffer loads faster.

Same thing here.
I always use incognito mode for e621, but I also tried another browser, just to be sure, but made no difference.

It takes like over a minute to download a 2 MB image.

Other sites and services work perfectly normal, so it's not my connection...

Yeah same thing here. Using Microsoft Edge in-private mode. Been using it for years without any problems. Does the same thing on my phone web browser too.

Same issues on Chrome here. If needing more details lmk where to look.

Same thing is happening to me, except atm /no/ images or video whatsoever are loading. Text works fine. Possibly some server issues?