Search never stops searching

[swxtech]

I've been on ebay for 25+ years. About a week ago, all of my searches time out without finding anything. The little blue dot just goes back and forth, back and forth. The search locks up my browser so that I have to close it using my task manager. Eventually, it will stop on it's own, and the site will show me 3 blurry lines of results followed by white nothingness.

[eburtonlab]

Any difference if you temporarily disable your ad blocker in Firefox?

If that speeds things up, try disabling just the Anti-Circumvention filter in Ad Block, or the ABP filters in Ad Block Plus, or the equivalent filters in other ad blockers.

Those filters have been associated with search results loading slowly and heavy resource usage in the past.