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  • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long to open and load pages

    Really?
    I use both Firefox and Chrome on Android, and both seem similar and ok to me. Firefox appears to be a bit faster, with uBlock, as my network is not always fast.

    Which websites do you mainly use?
    I keep chrome mainly for the google websites and services.

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      2 months ago

      To be fair, I blame the phone more than Firefox for the performance, though at the end of the day, it’s still slower than Chrome.

      I went cheap and low spec (OnePlus Nord N30, because it had a headphone jack AND sdcard) for my last phone replacement and, for 99% of the things I do, it’s perfectly fine.

      That last 1% is kind of annoying and browsing falls into it.

      It’s a case where loading a bookmark from the home screen will crash about 1/3rd of the time with Firefox and will routinely take long enough that I’m sitting there annoyed at how long it’s taking to load. No specific sites are better/worse, but it’s all mostly self-hosted stuff: redlib, Lemmy, PeerTube, Firefish, etc.

      It’s a case of it being basically instant for Chrome, and 5+ seconds for Firefox - and more like 20-25 in the case of Firefish to actually load all the content - so I’m assuming Google is doing some background pre-loading or something that’s causing the discrepancy.