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Scrolling performance is terrible, even on high end devices. I'd imagine its borderline unusable on mid-range devices.

by ac29 9y ago

TheChaplain 9y ago
No issues here, and I use it daily on a 2+ year old S7. Currently >20 tabs open with Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere addons. No stuttering or delays.
nucleardog 9y ago
I use it on a Jelly Pro. A $125, 2.something inch phone running a MediaTek 6737 at all of like 1.3GHz with some barely passable GPU. Scrolls fine. I mean, I'm sure if I went and pulled out a high framerate camera and checked it's running at a mere like 15FPS or something completely unusable, but it's never been bad enough to catch my attention. And on a really low end phone being able to install uBlock Origin certainly means that Firefox solves a lot more issues than it might potentially create.
taneq 9y ago
Weird, what device are you using? I used it on my Nexus 5X and now on my non-Edge S7 and it's fine, maybe some slightly-perceptible judders but certainly fluid enough to be usable.
khedoros1 9y ago
I use it as my main browser on a phone that was mid-range when it was released 2 1/2 years ago, and I've been pretty happy with it.
KozmoNau7 9y ago
It's perfectly fine on my Moto X Play.
sam_goody 9y ago
I'm use FF a ~$35 one year old Huang, with more than 100 tabs open, and have had no issues. Not so with the default browser.
- tomcooks 9y ago
  Care to share the model name? Interesting price
  - sam_goody 9y ago
    I don't see that particular model now, but a search for $35 phones on Aliexpress [1] (where I bought it), shows plenty of similar enough phones. Get the AliExpress mobile app and keep your eye on it for a few weeks, and you are bound to get a better deal. Of course, it will probably copy all your data (including speech and movements) both to Google and 100 Chinese corporations + partnering government agencies, but that kinda comes with the territory. (Especially as even brand names phones on Amazon, even when they are not using a compromised chpset like Rok, might really be cheapo fakes with the right SKU numbers, that are siphoning off that data as well.) [1]: https://he.aliexpress.com/category/5090301/mobile-phones.html?minPrice=35&maxPrice=38 https://he.aliexpress.com/category/5090301/mobile-phones.htm...
ivankolev 9y ago
Now, my Note 5 is probably a bit above mid-range, but it's not true for me, Firefox's UI has been very consistently excellent, I am happily using it since the beginning of the Quantum releases.
tomcooks 9y ago
Low range Asus Zenfone Max2 (z0d10), android lollipop, currently 86 tabs but usually hovering around 120. No problems with scrolling, it's smoother than Chrome

Scrolling performance is terrible, even on high end devices. I'd imagine its borderline unusable on mid-range devices.

by ac29 9y ago

Scrolling performance is terrible, even on high end devices. I'd imagine its borderline unusable on mid-range devices.

No issues here, and I use it daily on a 2+ year old S7. Currently >20 tabs open with Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere addons. No stuttering or delays.

nucleardog 9y ago

I use it on a Jelly Pro. A $125, 2.something inch phone running a MediaTek 6737 at all of like 1.3GHz with some barely passable GPU. Scrolls fine. I mean, I'm sure if I went and pulled out a high framerate camera and checked it's running at a mere like 15FPS or something completely unusable, but it's never been bad enough to catch my attention. And on a really low end phone being able to install uBlock Origin certainly means that Firefox solves a lot more issues than it might potentially create.

taneq 9y ago

Weird, what device are you using? I used it on my Nexus 5X and now on my non-Edge S7 and it's fine, maybe some slightly-perceptible judders but certainly fluid enough to be usable.

khedoros1 9y ago

I use it as my main browser on a phone that was mid-range when it was released 2 1/2 years ago, and I've been pretty happy with it.

KozmoNau7 9y ago

It's perfectly fine on my Moto X Play.

sam_goody 9y ago

I'm use FF a ~$35 one year old Huang, with more than 100 tabs open, and have had no issues. Not so with the default browser.

tomcooks 9y ago
Care to share the model name? Interesting price
- sam_goody 9y ago
  I don't see that particular model now, but a search for $35 phones on Aliexpress [1] (where I bought it), shows plenty of similar enough phones. Get the AliExpress mobile app and keep your eye on it for a few weeks, and you are bound to get a better deal. Of course, it will probably copy all your data (including speech and movements) both to Google and 100 Chinese corporations + partnering government agencies, but that kinda comes with the territory. (Especially as even brand names phones on Amazon, even when they are not using a compromised chpset like Rok, might really be cheapo fakes with the right SKU numbers, that are siphoning off that data as well.) [1]: https://he.aliexpress.com/category/5090301/mobile-phones.html?minPrice=35&maxPrice=38 https://he.aliexpress.com/category/5090301/mobile-phones.htm...

ivankolev 9y ago

Now, my Note 5 is probably a bit above mid-range, but it's not true for me, Firefox's UI has been very consistently excellent, I am happily using it since the beginning of the Quantum releases.

tomcooks 9y ago

Low range Asus Zenfone Max2 (z0d10), android lollipop, currently 86 tabs but usually hovering around 120. No problems with scrolling, it's smoother than Chrome