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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by Zak on Saturday June 04, 2016 @08:22PM (#11838971)
The Facebook app is a memory hog though, and was causing UI lag in other apps on my phone. I have very little idea how it was doing that, but when I removed it, the lag stopped.
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by VintageCool on Saturday June 04, 2016 @11:28PM (#11839493)
I uninstalled the Facebook Messenger app about 3 months ago when I saw a news article about how it devoured battery on Android, because I was having battery life problems at the time.
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Re:Facebook disabling messaging in its mobile web app to pus... by Zak on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:49AM (#11841527)
I just removed Messenger in favor of the Facebook Lite app, which can be found on APK mirror sites if Google Play doesn't offer it. There does seem to be a significant improvement in idle battery drain.
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