Are you subscribed to a lot of communities and/or does it also happen when not logged in?

I suspect it might be related to loading a lot of community avatars which seem to not get properly cached in the browser or so.

I haven’t really had time to properly investigate, but I also noticed it being a bit sluggy.

Maybe you best option is to try an alternative frontend like Photon or Alexandrite.

The default Lemmy UI is pretty lightweight. Do you have extensions, especially Lemmy home instance redirection extensions?

I’ve definitely used one of those that made browsing lemmy incredibly slow as it was busy rewriting all the links.

Lemmy loads basically instantly on Firefox on my desktop, and same on my phone with Chrome.

That sounds odd, maybe try a different UI like Photon

It’s probably something odd about your setup or an extension or something

Do you have an addpn which could do this? I use the same setup and dont have this Problem

Windows

Sounds to me that Firefox is the “problem”.

Then again, open source projects like Firefox and Lemmy aren’t exactly known for being the best in resource optimization.

Add up the layer of bloatware that’s included in Windows and… voliá! You got yourself an un-optimized mess.

I personally access Lemmy through a low end phone, so i use Jerboa which despite veing pretty “basic” (unlike, you know, Boost), has the advantage of being lightweight and pretty well-optimized.