Videos on web take long time to open and play

I am using Win 10 and use FF as my browser. I believe that is with Win 10 that this issue started. When surfing the majority of the page loads quickly.(I have a cable connection with 25+Down and 5+Up speed.) The video element of the page (whether it is uTube, slate, salon, reddit, BBC or any site with video element) takes 45-90 seconds to load/play. Also, if it's Flash, I have to "stop plug in" reload and wait more. I believe on uTube the vids play using HTML5 (I think), also with a similar delay. I have extensions installed (adblocker, do not track, privacy badger and Flash Control) but those have been installed and used successfully before starting Win 10. I surf a lot of news, and aggregators sites and like the ability to see the short videos that sometimes accompany the story. This issue is a pain and probably adds an hour a day to my surfing, just waiting. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

 

Greetings rubinontheroad.

So this is an upgrade? If so, it's quite possible that there may be some device driver issues going on - those seem to be some of the main problems we're seeing with Win 10. I'd check your machine's support pages to see if there may be some specific driver updates.

You might also try running the DPC Latency Checker, see if any info jumps out at you.

Also, you might try Firefox with no add-ons enabled, see if your symptoms change. Try the sites with Edge (or with any other browser, for that matter), just to verify.

 

Caliban, Thanks, although the tool looks a little complicated for me, I'll take a look, thanks again.....