Lemmy is so slow on firefox

I use Firefox on both desktop and mobile and don't have any issues.

The recent update (v0.18) performs a lot better than the version running on lemmy.world (v0.17.4), thanks to ripping out the websocket interface and replacing it with HTTP requests. Some instance admins are (understandably) waiting for the CAPTCHA to get refactored before updating though.

The websocket interface provided live-updating feeds and comment sections, along with a lot of bugs. It was pretty cool, but scaled very poorly which made fixing the remaining bugs a futile effort.

Hm. Works fine for me on LibreWolf and Mull (privacy hardened forks of Firefox on Linux and Android). Also on Brave.

Maybe it's a problem with your instance or something? Kinda weird.

Seems okay to me, though I'm on Firefox desktop with only one extension installed. And using a different Lemmy instance.

Maybe it's something specific to mobile Firefox and/or your specific Lemmy instance (?)

I'm using Firefox 113.0.2 64-bit, Linux Mint, and a desktop. The instance (lemmy.ml) is running 0.18.0. It doesn't feel slow for me.

However, once I access lemmy.world directly, it becomes way slower. So you might want to ask the lemmyworld admins to update their instance.

Works fine for me, even with themes. But some instances are definitely better than others. I moved to lemm.ee from lemmy.world because it was more reliable.

I wouldn't say slow, but I have for sure had it consume GOBBS of memory if I ever leave it open too long forcing me to close it and wait for the workers to all shut down.

This is 100x worse if I leave it on page 1. For now I visit page 0 (which is page 1 without the auto updating) and then skip to page 2. Fingers crossed they finish 0.18.1 and .world updates quickly. I suspect this is a websockets problem.

I have at times noticed some issues loading Lemmy on Firefox on iOS. Hasn’t been too terrible though, and testing now loaded fine. Bear in mind, every browser on iOS is safari webkit under the hood still.

I have started using Memmy App, and also trying Mlem. Both are in beta and you can find links to get them in test flight if you search for them. Despite being in beta they run smooth and fast.

Memmy is my favorite this far mostly because I’m new to Lemmy and it is the only one of the two with working search as of today, so I can find new communities.

I don't face this problem on android with nightly.

Are you sure that it's not your network problem?

I use instance near me, and my instance is fast enough on mobile, because it's same network as on my ISP.

As I remember, lemmy require more API hit, if it fail, it will load forever or keep trying til freeze.