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it's part of their anti-adblock code. without going into too much details, they can instantly find out whether ad-block is trying to do anything on chrome, but on firefox they need a 5 sec delay
Which is honestly to Firefox's credit. Making it harder to find out stuff about your browser is a good thing, unless it has to do with feature support.
But the fact that they don't give a shit and are willing to ruin the user experience for it, that's despicable.
I’d be more likely to believe that if spoofing your user agent didn’t immediately fix the issue.