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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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drascusreply
sh.itjust.works

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

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taladarreply
sh.itjust.works

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?

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

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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.

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vlemmy.net

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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