When I want to reply to a post I click "Quote" and start typing. But as I start to type the quoted post disappears for abt 1-2 seconds and then reappears.. The first few letters I've typed are in my search box at the bottom of my screen. Very irritating. Why the delay? It was never like this before. Seems to have started in the last few weeks. If I was a patient person I could wait abt 3 seconds before I started typing. This is on my Windows laptop using FF browser.

Im not able to reproduce that. Have you tried the time tested cache clearing? Which OS and browser, plus versions, are you using?

It's not new, as I've seen this kind of thing happen intermittently with FT throughout this year and even earlier -- and that's with at least iOS+Safari/Firefox and MacOS+Safair/Firefox.

More frequently restarting the devices/applications where this is happening and/or purging the browser in part or in full before relaunching/reinstalling the browser can help.

The issue of the sort you're seeing as of late -- and that I've been seeing for quite some time -- seems to be at least in some substantial part at times a memory/processor hog thing. Mainstream operating system type/version and browser versions don't make a difference. I've got multiple OS versions and browser versions, so merely changing to an older or newer version of the in-use OS and/or broswers hasn't made a difference in the way that doing what I suggest in the prior paragraph has made.

I've defaulted to having more and more of my posts typed outside of the FT window/browser tab before pasting them or having them auto-keyed into the quote box as soon as I start noticing a delay of the sort you have noticed too.

That's always the first to do. Latest version of FF is the worst. Chrome is much better, almost no delay. Windows 10.

It happens all the time with me. I think it's Firefox related rather than a forum issue.