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I also used Firefox on Android for a pretty long period, but to be honest I ended up moving to Brave. I run Nightly so I get the improvements quickly, but even

I also used Firefox on Android for a pretty long period, but to be honest I ended up moving to Brave. I run Nightly so I get the improvements quickly, but even with that Firefox is still far behind Chrome. - Firefox does not have a JIT for 64-bit ARM (AArch64). Didn't benchmark but this does make a difference. - Running a extension based ad blocker seems to degrade performance and the difference visible on a smartphone SoC. I think Brave has it written in native code and deeply integrated, and it seems to perform without making things super slow. - While I can't judge on the UI (actually I miss the tab gestures on Firefox), Firefox often glitches like not loading custom tabs, page search getting stuck and some others. This was quite stressful. - The sync is super glitchy. It can easily be days outdated unless you trigger it manually.

leetcrew 8y ago
if you're concerned about performance, why would you use nightly? i've never benchmarked the difference between other people's release, beta, and nightly builds, but i know at my day job the daily builds are likely to have performance regressions that won't necessarily be fixed until beta or release.
- ishitatsuyuki 8y ago
  Because it's also the first to get major rewrites. The Stylo CSS engine used to be Nightly only, and Nightly is basically the only channel you can test the latest Quantum components.
  - yoasif_ 8y ago
    There are no real improvements coming to Firefox Nightly on Android. All the real action is happening in Firefox Focus with GeckoView: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Release-tracks#nightly https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Release... and in Fenix: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix Fennec (Firefox for Android) is basically in maintenance mode. FWIW: Firefox Focus Nightly is a much better implementation of Gecko on Android than Fennec ever was, with the caveat that Sync, sessions, or extensions are not available.

leetcrew 8y ago

if you're concerned about performance, why would you use nightly? i've never benchmarked the difference between other people's release, beta, and nightly builds, but i know at my day job the daily builds are likely to have performance regressions that won't necessarily be fixed until beta or release.

ishitatsuyuki 8y ago
Because it's also the first to get major rewrites. The Stylo CSS engine used to be Nightly only, and Nightly is basically the only channel you can test the latest Quantum components.
- yoasif_ 8y ago
  There are no real improvements coming to Firefox Nightly on Android. All the real action is happening in Firefox Focus with GeckoView: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Release-tracks#nightly https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Release... and in Fenix: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix Fennec (Firefox for Android) is basically in maintenance mode. FWIW: Firefox Focus Nightly is a much better implementation of Gecko on Android than Fennec ever was, with the caveat that Sync, sessions, or extensions are not available.