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When handling bad layers due to a network request time out the project takes far too long to give you the option to not load those layers; especially if you have more than one layer. This frequently happens when I take my laptop on the road and forget to save the project beforehand with no localhost layers attached. I would like to suggest that we implement a safe mode; such as when holding down the shift key or something similar all network layers will not be loaded. Perhaps a dialog could come up to notify the user. As it is right now; QGIS behaves too slowly and almost appears to be frozen or to have crashed.