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.
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
On Android Firefox is great.
Can handle my more than 100 open tabs quite well.
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.
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.
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
If you dont mind updating manually Icraven is a pretty good port. It’s on GitHub but they are working on a Fdroid release
You can use ffupdater to get updates of various FF forks, including Iceraven, and other browsers.
Thanks, that’s neat!
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.