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I want to believe that, and even tried to go all Firefox for the previous two weeks. I will say they have good Sync, which nobody outside of Chrome had achieve

by axaxs 8y ago

I want to believe that, and even tried to go all Firefox for the previous two weeks. I will say they have good Sync, which nobody outside of Chrome had achieved at all. The desktop browser is mostly OK, no real complaints. On mobile, however, Firefox is noticeably slower than any of the usual blink based browsers, and most importantly to me, uses way more battery life. I love PL things and am glad Rust exists, but from the outside it feels like a wasted effort, for now.

tannhaeuser 8y ago
For me, speed and bandwith savings come from using uBlock in FF, especially on mobile.
- axaxs 8y ago
  That's what I'd been trying. But I've found that Brave and even Opera (issues aside) do it better, and at a fraction of battery life. On my phone battery is king, so I really wish that part were fixed.
sciurus 8y ago
Keep an eye out for improvements on mobile. https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/04/26/mozilla-outlines-plan-to-replace-firefox-for-android-with-fenix/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/04/26/mozilla-outlines-pl...
- JetSpiegel 8y ago
  https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/1707 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/1707 I will wait for Fennec...
LamaOfRuin 8y ago
I experience the exact opposite on mobile, because it's possible to enable tracking protection which makes 99% of websites I visit more usable, performant, and battery efficient.
feanaro 8y ago
Interesting. Firefox is much more performant for me on mobile than Chrome (and crashes way less).
Certhas 8y ago
You speak as if FF was a niche product that is a sacrifice to use. There are markets such as Germany, that were always more seceptical of IE/Chrome where FF is still in second place at around 25% and recently rising again while Chrome has fallen back below 50%. Chrome is definitely the dominant browser, FF is far from irrelevant. I also echo the content of the sibling comment: on mobile u block origin is really a God send.

by axaxs 8y ago

tannhaeuser 8y ago

For me, speed and bandwith savings come from using uBlock in FF, especially on mobile.

axaxs 8y ago
That's what I'd been trying. But I've found that Brave and even Opera (issues aside) do it better, and at a fraction of battery life. On my phone battery is king, so I really wish that part were fixed.

sciurus 8y ago

Keep an eye out for improvements on mobile. https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/04/26/mozilla-outlines-plan-to-replace-firefox-for-android-with-fenix/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/04/26/mozilla-outlines-pl...

JetSpiegel 8y ago
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/1707 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/1707 I will wait for Fennec...

LamaOfRuin 8y ago

I experience the exact opposite on mobile, because it's possible to enable tracking protection which makes 99% of websites I visit more usable, performant, and battery efficient.

feanaro 8y ago

Interesting. Firefox is much more performant for me on mobile than Chrome (and crashes way less).

Certhas 8y ago

You speak as if FF was a niche product that is a sacrifice to use. There are markets such as Germany, that were always more seceptical of IE/Chrome where FF is still in second place at around 25% and recently rising again while Chrome has fallen back below 50%. Chrome is definitely the dominant browser, FF is far from irrelevant. I also echo the content of the sibling comment: on mobile u block origin is really a God send.