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Re:Firefox 73 by mtrower on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:25PM (#22303617)
Slow? I don't find it slow at all, and my phone isn't exactly top-end; what kind of hardware were you running on?

(I don't use uBlock on mobile, but I might go look into it...)

My only complaint is that it doesn't integrate quite as well as Chrome, but I don't think that's Mozilla's fault.

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Re:Firefox 73 by Miraste on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:48PM (#22303823)
I tried it on a Galaxy Tab s5e and an LG v35, which have last year's mid-range Qualcomm chip and 2018's high-end chip respectively. On the v35 loading was slow, and sometimes it would crash or make all my tabs blank until restarted. On the tablet it couldn't even scroll down a page without lagging. I haven't run into any other apps that do this on either device. Zooming was always laggy and a bit off--bad acceleration curves or something--enough that they've redone it from scratch for other platforms instead of trying to fix the code.

There's a reason Mozilla is rewriting the whole thing.

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Re:Firefox 73 by mtrower on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:11PM (#22303975)
That's crazy =(

That LG v35 outspecs my BlackBerry KEYone by a good margin, and Firefox is just as fast as Chrome for me. Which is to say, snappy.

I read more details about your performance problems in another comment, and it sounds horrible; I can't imagine anyone using that. Sounds like a nasty bug, I guess..?

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