Weirdly, earlier today I had a bunch of problems loading Google web properties on Firefox - GMail hung completely (wouldn't even load all the way! no more basic HTML option!) and Sheets was showing half-rendered documents (even after several refresh attempts). All the other sites were fine.
This happens periodically, where google services act funny with a Firefox user agent. Just use edge or chromes user agent string, and Google sites will work again.
This is such an annoying approach for Google to force people to using Chrome... I get that they're not testing stuff on Firefox, so much is obvious. But there are so many times things don't work properly in Firefox (YouTube loading slower, lag in Gmail, Drive having weird UI<>backend synchronization bugs) at a first glance, but as soon as you set the user-agent to Chrome, things just magically work perfectly fine, and all issues disappear.
Someone should really be doing a deep dive into this issue, because it's been going on for a long time, and is clearly anti-competitive. My guess is that they're really good at hiding this/making it look accidental rather than on purpose.
Gmail’s always very nearly unusable on mobile safari, mostly due to their user-hating decision to use custom scrolling. Constant accidental touch events when trying to scroll, and it breaks in weird ways that require reloads to fix. And that’s aside from the scrolling itself working poorly to begin with, but short of outright breakage.
IDK if it’s better in iOS Chrome, but it’d be pretty damning if it is, since they necessarily use the same engine on that platform.
It's probably just a coincidence...