Preventing QGIS from Loading Online Service Capabilities at Project Startup?

Question

I'm working with a QGIS project that includes multiple online services (WMS, WFS, etc.), and I've encountered significant delays when starting the project. QGIS attempts to load the capabilities of these services even if they are not active or visible, which not only slows down the project startup time but can also be problematic with a slow or absent Internet connection.

Is there a way to prevent QGIS from automatically retrieving the capabilities of online services at startup?

I'm looking for a solution that could either delay this process until the layers are actually needed or disable the automatic loading altogether without having to manually deactivate each service before closing the project.

I'm currently using QGIS 3.34.

Answer 1

If you do not need all of these Layers everytime, you could make a simple Plugin with pyqgis, with which you can toggle the layers in and out of your project. So the layers wont be loaded if you do not need them.