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Hey, author here.

I don't think we have any scroll event handlers on our blog (not 100% sure as I didn't implement the theme). It's a WP site, perhaps that's the common element -- although I don't think WP ships any JS itself...

My best guess would perhaps it's animated gifs triggering a bug in the browser for some reason?

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EDIT: animated gifs more likely.

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My best guess would perhaps it's animated gifs triggering a bug in the browser for some reason?

That's plausible. Firefox has been buggy as an insect colony in recent releases, and other browsers didn't seem to have any problem with it.

In case it's useful to know: the page was also very slow to zoom at first in Firefox but then when I tried again a minute or two later it seemed to be back to normal. Again, this was a very obvious difference.

It was a bit sluggish for me at first but now it's fine: I bet it's the gifs.

Hmm, might stop the larger one from autoplaying. Better safe than sorry.

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