Firefox won't load pages or is extremely slow to start loading a page. If I manually stop and refresh it, it loads instantly.

I have restarted in safe mode, no change. I can't afford to reset it, I've spent countless hours undoing the Australis theme damage + other per-site customization.

hello rlyslowff, one thing you could try is to remove all program rules for firefox from your firewall/security software and let it detect the program again...
please also [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ update your plugins] (some of them are out-dated & have security vulnerabilities that are actively exploited on the web).
in case this didn't solve the issue, go to the firefox ''menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information'', copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum, as this might give us further clues what is going on...

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