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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by marcan_42 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:03AM (#24838139)
I still use Chrome by default on mobile, but when Chrome has performance issues, I switch to Firefox and it works fine. I've been considering a switch to Firefox on mobile (I already switched on my main workstation).

Try it with a long page, something thousands of lines long. Mobile Chrome on Android chokes badly, stops responding for seconds or minutes, and page search is hideously slow. Firefox handles it fine. It's really obvious on long lists or tables, e.g. this page:

https://reitaisai.com/arts7/?p=165

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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by Larrikin on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:35AM (#24838563)
Why is Chrome your default on mobile? The web has become nearly unbrowseable on mobile without an AdBlocker and that's the single greatest advantage Firefox has over chrome on mobile.
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Re:When you tell Chrome to wipe private data it spares Googl... by kspacewalk2 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:55AM (#24838866)
In my experience, on many (most?) sites, ads are by far the biggest performance issue, dwarfing any differences in rendering. I can remove those with FF but not Chrome, so they made that decision quite easy for me.
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