I run Bitdefender on 2 computers, both have the same problem even though they are reasonably powerful configurations (i7 1165g7 and 1260p both with 16gb, Wind11 21h2 and 22h2 respectively): I had noticed loading at Windows startup was a little slow even though I have very few other apps on autorun (Google Drive and ProtonVPN, I recently dropped Adguard because I thought it could be reason of my problems with Firefox) but it is more than acceptable, my only issue is with Firefox.
Even if I give Windows more than enough time to start up, everything is up and running in systray, when I go and run Firefox I am left hanging for about 30 seconds with Firefox apparently loading things but unresponsive.
I thought it could have something to do with Adguard (DNS settings perhaps), so after some tweaking I uninstalled it; then I moved on to ProtonVPN and did the same with no result; little by little I disabled every single feature on Firefox (no sync, no bookmarks, no add-ons...) until I was running it with no active user log in... sadly to no avail.
I recently reinstalled Windows from scratch, and started experiencing the same issue right away, when Bitdefender was the only other app installed. So I decided to disable Bitdefender and now it works. It doesn't matter how many extension or addons I use, how many things I sync, Firefox now starts instantly, even with ProtonVPN active, even with uBlock Origin extension active. But as soon as I turn on Bitdefender's Antivirus and reboot I am back to long waits.
This happens with both my computers. Both quite powerful configurations, both with very few apps installed.
Is there anything I can do to fix it? Any suggestion?
I forgot to mention that Edge seems to be totally unaffected: while Firefox is trying to load, I can open Edge, surf to whatever page I need, search things on Google, close Edge and still end up waiting for Firefox to respond.
Thanks. And sorry if I didn't post this message in the right section.
