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Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 (hacks.mozilla.org)
submitted 8 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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In order to measure the user experience, Firefox collects a wide range of anonymized timing metrics related to page load, responsiveness, startup and other aspects of browser performance. Collecting data while holding ourselves to the highest standards of privacy can be challenging. For example, because we rely on aggregated metrics, we lack the ability to pinpoint data from any particular website. But perhaps even more challenging is analyzing the data once collected and drawing actionable conclusions. In the future we’ll talk more about these challenges and how we’re addressing them, but in this post we’d like to share how some of the metrics that are fundamental to how our users experience the browser have improved throughout the year.

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[-] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 14 points 8 months ago

It's a shame the mobile firefox is such a flaming turd in comparison. Can't imagine using anything else on desktop bit they made me switch to cromite. And the devs gaslight you if you complain about the degenerate ui issues on firefox mobile. I wish there was firefox sync for chromite

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 18 points 8 months ago

It's really not that bad. I've been using it for years, it's fine... Plus you can use an adblocker and dark reader.

[-] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

Been using firefox for at least 3 years (forever on desktop). Try cromite and see, you get all of the same stuff except it's really fast. No idea why, loading times and all are pretty much the same, but the UI is responsive and doesn't get in the way. I want to use ff but it makes me want to break my phone

[-] contao@feddit.de 10 points 8 months ago

On Android Firefox is great.

  • Performance is good
  • you can choose between bottom or top navigation
  • pull to refresh (needs to be enabled in the settings)
  • swipe to change tabs
  • extensions

Can handle my more than 100 open tabs quite well.

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Performance is not good at all. I have a 120hz phone now and scrolling feels like Firefox is still on 60hz. Settings and the like are perfectly smooth tho, so it's not actually only rendering at 60hz, it's just rendering webpages so slowly that it can't keep up with my screens refresh rate.

Feature-wise Firefox is way better than Chrome on mobile but performance is just horrible. Firefox also looks a little dated on mobile by now, especially compared to Chrome but that's not a deal breaker. Would be nice if they adopted Material Design 3 tho.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No, sadly performance is not good. With less installed addons and no opened tabs it takes more time to start up than the old version, which had a few dozen opened tabs opened and more addons.
It also lags quite a lot while in use after startup.

[-] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

If you dont mind updating manually Icraven is a pretty good port. It's on GitHub but they are working on a Fdroid release

[-] density@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

You can use ffupdater to get updates of various FF forks, including Iceraven, and other browsers.

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

There's also Obtainium, which might be better to use if you need to update other stuff aside from browsers, that's not on F-Droid. Better to have just one of them running in the background instead of both if them.

[-] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks, that's neat!

[-] spiderman@ani.social 4 points 8 months ago

never thought a firefox fork to be faster than chrome in android

[-] dadaredone@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

It's not good, developer has no guarantee for updates and the app is notably left outdated for months.

[-] MoshBit@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

That's literally not true in the slightest. I've had at least two updates in the past month.

[-] dadaredone@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

friend i've been tracking that browser from 2 years now and it really has a bad update cycle, i gave up on that browser due to same reason.

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

"Gave up on" and "tracking for 2 years now" in the same sentence...you're sending mixed messages.

[-] dadaredone@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

English is not my primary language, it's still raw pardon it convyed certain message that i basically don't use that browser anymore due to updates even the developer agrees on this.

[-] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thanks will try it. And I try to use obtanium, it's really good for this kind of stuff, checks and downloads fr github

Edit: tried it, it's faster it seems. But it has the same problem as the regular ff - if there is a firefox purple notification on the screen the rest of the ui is locked. You can swipe, sure, but for some reason this is infuriating

[-] adam_b@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago

Iceraven is faster than vanilla FF, but updates are slow, this can hurt your security

[-] TalesFromTheKitchen@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I've noticed updates getting a lot more frequent. I hope they can keep this upand grow their user base.

[-] adam_b@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I'm on their github page rn, and I see that, last time I used it, updates took months to arrive.. Now it's just a week or two 👍

[-] omnissiah@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 8 months ago

Mull browser for android is really good especially with uBlock origin

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