Firefox flies on much heavier sites, but HN feels like molasses.
by slyall on 3/21/25, 11:04 AM
Yes.
I just upgraded and firefox scrolling seems weird. It is freezing for 5-10s every few minutes.
Very obvious when I'll using the mouse-wheel to scroll down longs pages like HN
by LinuxBender on 3/20/25, 9:10 PM
I've only used Firefox in the past couple of decades and the only site that does to me what you describe is LinkedIn. I can scroll about 2 days of updates before it lags to a crawl and then eventually breaks.
In the past there was paging issues for people logged in on HN when a thread would reach thousands of comments but team dang fixed that some time back.
by outer_web on 3/20/25, 7:53 PM
Desktop or mobile? Just HN or others? I recall having this issue on a variety of sites a few months back. Their help pages had people experiencing the same issues but no solutions.
I think I downloaded FF Nightly and it wasn't an issue anymore.
by af3d on 3/20/25, 7:46 PM
Compared to most websites these days HN is about as lightweight as it gets. I would say if you are experiencing laggy page loads, the issue is most likely something else. (Maybe disable extensions and restart?)
by jethronethro on 3/20/25, 7:51 PM
Haven't seen that happen on HN ever even on pages with longer comment threads.
by genezeta on 3/20/25, 7:42 PM
Just tried on Firefox on Windows and Firefox on Android. Both fine, as usual.
by Aldipower on 3/20/25, 7:26 PM
Nope. Everything fine as always.