Hmm, that's weird, for me firefox is just as slow as normal chrome.
The other trick I use is to disable image on this website. I notice improvements, but the downside would be the fact that all the images would be blocked.
Anyway, I switched to Chromium and it works amazingly. Page load in split second now. I highly recommend it instead.
I checked the memory usage per tabs on Chrome, it stands around 400mb per tab. On Chromium, it only took them around 150mb per tab. So that might explained it a bit.