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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by seabrookmx on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @01:26PM (#19028661)
I think you're both right. On my Essential Phone (Snapdragon 835 running stock Android 9) pages tend to _render_ quicker in FF, but scrolling, pinch to zoom etc. is smoother in Chrome.

I also find that Firefox will bog down after a month and I have to manually delete out its cache in app settings. I haven't had to do this for Chrome since back in the Android 5.x era.

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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by vanderZwan on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @02:36PM (#19029186)
The latter might also be due to extensions
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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by seabrookmx on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @06:59PM (#19031189)
I could see that.

Not the issue in my case though.. I don't use any extensions on my mobile browsers.

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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by vanderZwan on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:03AM (#19033895)
Heh, maybe it's the opposite then! Like an accumulation of shitty trackers, because you don't use uBlock or privacy badger or the like. That would be pretty ironic
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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by yoz-y on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:42AM (#19034921)
Trackers do not really accumulate though, no? Or can they install something persistent (web workers maybe?)
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Re:Firefox 65.0 released by vanderZwan on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:56AM (#19036809)
Store stuff in IndexedDB?
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