Ask HN: Is HN scrolling slow/jagged on Firefox for you?

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Firefox flies on much heavier sites, but HN feels like molasses.

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

I've started experiencing something similar! Almost anytime I switch tabs causes the browser to come to a halt, and when I start scrolling on a new tab it takes a while for the browser to start scrolling smoothly again.

My computer is not old and rather high-end, too.

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.

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.

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?)