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Thijxx
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Website Photos view is slow

Howdy, viewing photo's on the Dropbox website is painfully slow. Is there a way to get better performance from the Dropbox website when viewing photos? When I use the profiler in Firefox I can see th...
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Thijxx
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Yes I run extensions, I block your Adobe trackers and your Qualtrics "Experience Manager" but when I use private browsing, without the blocker, it is just as slow. First page of photo's takes 7 seconds.

When switching to a 5G dongle the performance is the same.

 

Could you tell me what I should expect in terms of performance? Should the photos page load sub-second or is that not fair?

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Walter
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2 years ago

Thanks for the additional information Thijxx 

 

Could you also clarify if this happens only when browsing the Photos page or if it's affecting other folders of yours as well? 

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