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To be fair, current firefox is very slow and resource hungry, and works well only on top of the line phones. For example, I have 2 android phones, 1 with 4GB and 1 with 8 GB of RAM. In the 8 GB one, I can use firefox with ublock origin, but it is a terrible experience on the 4GB phone (which has a slower processor too). The new firefox is much faster and runs snappily on both phones.


This is nonsense, I am running it on samsung galaxy s5 and s7 and both are running without issues. But with a small twist, both are free from google with microg lineage installed and xprivacy lua and netguard blocking all unneeded communication. Maybe you should think about removing all google apps to remove bloatware from your phone to save the resources for somethinv usefull instead od wasting your batter life (30% longer battery life) and cpu to feed google?

Anyway, I dont use firefox due to speed but as I dont want any of google products on my phone, regardless of how fast they are. It is not about speed. It is about having some dignity within survailance capitalism. And I am filtering everything trough mitm proxy so I dont need ublock. For the fingerprinting part... I wont update untill they fix this mess.


I'm using it on a Moto G6 which is last I checked literally the cheapest phone you can buy brand new in the US, and Firefox works fine on it.

Of course I usually have JavaScript disabled.


That doesn't match my experience at all. My phone has 4GB of RAM, my firefox has over tabs up (yes I'm a monster but it makes my point a lot stronger here), and other than taking a bit to open from a cold start it's perfectly fine performance-wise.




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