c/firefox · by drascus@sh.itjust.works · 3y

difficulty signing up for lemmy in firefox

I don't know if other people have had this experience. When I try to sign up for a lemmy server in firefox it just hangs indefinitely. I've had to use alternative browsers to sign up for accounts. I hope this is something that will be fixed. Lemmy and firefox should be natural allies.

EDIT: I appreciate the replies but don't frankly understand the downvotes. I will leave this up for now despite all the downvotes. if this really is that bad of a post I will leave it up to the mods to remove it.

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10 Comments

taladar@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Firefox worked fine for signing up on 3 different instances so far.

drascus@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 3y (2 replies)

hmm maybe it's some extension I have installed... next time I will try an incognito window.

taladar@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Might be, though I also have a rather restrictive set of extensions blocking all kinds of things.

Maybe the instance you tried to sign up to was overloaded at the time?

drascus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

I doubt it I tried on FF multiple times then switched to brave and it worked instantly...

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

I use Firefox exclusively for Lemmy and have had zero issues. That said, I've only signed up for accounts at two instances, so maybe other instances have issues.

theophrastus@vlemmy.net · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Here's a quote from a generally good Lemmy howto

To mitigate spam bots, most lemmy instances require new user accounts to be explicitly approved. This may take a few minutes or a few hours. In the meantime, go for a walk, read through the official Lemmy documentation, or browse through all the available Lemmy Subreddits Communities while you wait.

drascus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

well that does make sense for sites that need approvals like beehaw. However even my home instance after clicking signup the signup button just spun and never completed. The moment I switched browsers the instance accepted me immediately. It's likely a extension issue I believe so I will delete his post for now as it's probably not useful.

bappity@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I had no issues on my side, perhaps it's an extension messing with something?

regitseroms@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

it is possible that it is hanging up because the username you are trying to use is not available. At least that was my experience.

_HR_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Worked just fine for me.