displaying Tumblr in Firefox

[ratcreature]

Tumblr seems to freeze Firefox fairly often on my computer, e.g. I scroll down my dashboard and then suddenly the page (and all of Firefox actually, like I can't switch tabs) becomes unresponsive for a little while before scrolling resumes. At first I thought it might be some unfortunate side effect of XKit or an XKit extension, because the filtering that applies to my dashboard (like removing the sponsored stuff, and blocking some tags), and that used to slow things down on my old laptop sometimes, but this effect also happens sometimes when I have just a single Tumblr post open and scroll down that.

Do others have this problem? It is starting to really annoy me. It never happens on any other website besides Tumblr.

Comments

[auburn]

Ugh, yes, I have this exact problem with Tumblr and Firefox. The browser fades out and Firefox is not responding. It seems to get worse the farther I scroll down. I just chalked it up to my less than blazing fast connection. It certainly isn't the laptop, with is a high end gaming set up. Even if a resource hog shouldn't slow it down much.

Tumblr though, seems to work lazily at having crappy code and innovations that make it less and less responsive. Sigh. Why the hell am I on Tumblr anyway?

[ratcreature]

It becomes ever clearer that it doesn't properly work on any computer. I don't think it is the internet connection either. I mean, my DSL is not the fastest, but not that bad either (it's supposed to deliver a bit over 17Mbit/s, in practice it's often less but it ought to be enough to look at a bunch of pictures) and it doesn't seem to have any impact whether I'm downloading something in the background or not, and a few times this fade out thing happened to me not on my dash but as I was scrolling down as single post.