Until this point, user was unaware that Duck Duck Go was even loading the Dark theme by default. It was noticed on multiple computers, multiple networks. This performance change has occurred within the last few weeks. No Does this happen in other web browsers? Enter any set of keywords into the Duck Duck Go search bar and hit EnterĬhrome Version 1.147 (Official Build) (64-bit) Dark Reader versionĤ.9.62 Does this happen when Dark Reader is disabled?.If the Dark theme is not selected by default, click the hamburger menu, select 'Themes', select 'Appearance', and choose the 'Dark' or 'Terminal' theme.Light themes do not result in slower renders, or at least not as slow. On further testing, this seems to only effect the render when the Dark or Terminal themes are applied. Once the results page is loaded, controls such as loading 'more results' or the search box autofill are not delayed. How the search results page is accessed does not matter - searching from address/omni bar, DDG's search box, or clicking a 'suggested search' link in DDG. The main Duck Duck Go page also takes slightly longer to render, but only an extra second or so. When DR is disabled for the site, the page renders in ~1 second. When Dark Reader is active for in Chrome Browser, a new Duck Duck Go search results page takes 8-10 seconds to render. I can reproduce this performance issue in a new, unmodified web browser profile with Dark Reader installed as the only extension.

I have restarted the web browser to check if that resolved this performance issue.I searched for any existing report about this performance issue to avoid opening a duplicate.

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