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

by asdffdasy on 3/20/2025, 7:21:27 PM with 9 comments
Firefox flies on much heavier sites, but HN feels like molasses.

  • by slyall on 3/21/2025, 11:04:33 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 3/20/2025, 9:10:38 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 3/20/2025, 7:53:34 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 3/20/2025, 7:46:51 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 3/20/2025, 7:51:55 PM

    Haven't seen that happen on HN ever even on pages with longer comment threads.

  • by genezeta on 3/20/2025, 7:42:43 PM

    Just tried on Firefox on Windows and Firefox on Android. Both fine, as usual.

  • by Aldipower on 3/20/2025, 7:26:19 PM

    Nope. Everything fine as always.