Nothing out of the ordinary. The load time is atrocious and it's due to how Google+ was re-engineered to be a frontend to the Google ecosystem (if you will). Pretty window behaviors were favored over quick load times and ease of use. GChat was shoehorned in because of course no one has any other means to communicate over XMPP (sarcasm).<p>These annoyances and more are the reason why G+ has become so (increasingly) derided by the internet. I dislike what it has become but I still use it frequently. I hope Google will make it a lot less bloated someday