I’m not talking about an extra 10-15sec, but easily 2-3 full minutes (I’ve sat here with a timer checking) to load pages, sometimes not loading them at all. Particularly with login pages, but even just homepages.
Dropbox, Cloudflare, Various companies forums, My bank, Google; each of these sites and more I’ve had firefox either not load at all, or take so long I’ve been able to copy the link into Chrome, do what I need there, then come back to Firefox still ‘loading’ a blank white page.
I just don’t understand. I want to migrate away from Chrome and use Firefox, but it’s been unusably slow when it even loads anything at all.
P.S. In the time I’ve taken to write this (~5min) plus the time to decide to post and find this community firefox has still not loaded my cloudflare dash… (typed in the address, waited a while, gave up and came here but left it open)
/edit: I should note I have ublock installed, but I get the same results with it disabled most of the time.
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I have a really crappy old phone, and Firefox plus ublock plus privacy badger still works great for me. However, I had to uninstall it and reinstall it when I first set up that phone, for reasons I never could figure out.
Annoyingly, after an OTA, same deal. Had to reinstall Firefox or it was garbage.
What phone are you using?
Samsung A52
That phone was released March of 2021. Assuming you’ve had it since 2021, it’s been 2 years. I think that’s about how long phones last these days with planned obsolecence.
Why don’t you try backing up the important stuff and factory resetting your phone? It might make your phone faster. Don’t immediately restore, just download firefox and browse for a while before restoring. If the speed is significantly slower after restoring your data (and by “data” I mean including all the apps you want to download), you might have apps causing issues.
Edit: I’m using Fennec btw. It’s a fork that’s maintained by the same organization, Mozilla, but it’s on F-Droid so there’s probabaly less Google Play stuff on it. Not sure if that would be any different from the Google Play version, but it doesn’t hurt to try.
The A52 came with a decent SoC, two years won’t make it out of date.
Had the a52 5g before. It did become quite sluggish over time - and wasn’t smooth even to start with.
That’s not caused by user bloat - it was just as slow when I reset it before selling it.
Now I have a xiaomi 13 and it does everything basically instantly
2 years means I wouldn’t buy a new version of it but it’s quite common to buy a phone for up to a year before a replacement model arrives, so potentially this phone is just over a year old.
Not only that, but usually it gets security updates longer than that. Personally, I would expect a phone to last 3 years minim and be usable for 5.
Even with 2 years it’s not going to suddenly drop to 3 minutes to load a web browser, I’m calling network errors on this one
My S9+ is over 5 years old and pages only take 5-10 seconds to load, even with the dark mode add on
Most google phones get security updates for 4 or 5 years. If you’re dumping phones after 2 years then you must like to spend unesessary amounts of money.
the about:blank pages sucks
I have been experiencing that with the new Firefox ever since it was released, despite having less tabs open (0-4 instead of a few dozen) and using less addons (this is not a deliberate choice)
But, for me loading of websites never hang indefinitely, it is just extremely slow
Nope, it’s very snappy for me. I use both Firefox and Mull on Android with ublock.
Clear cache/app data and try again?
I recently switched to Firefox even on mobile and I didn’t notice any slowness
No.
Try disabling all add ons. I’m using firefox on all my devices, some of them pretty old mobiles and all work good. Some extensions like already mentioned dark reader are absolute perf killers.
I have experienced Firefox take a long time to load (a minute or more) the first page after it has been suspended or not used in a while. For instance, if I am in my chat app (weechat-android) and I click a link to open it in Firefox, it may take a minute or more to load. However, after that initial load, it is mostly OK and behaves normally.
It’s annoying and sucks… but I can live with it.
I have the same problem and the only reason I haven’t dumped mobile Firefox yet is a working adblock.
Try installing Mull (Firefox fork) from F-Droid and see if you have the same issues
I use vanilla Firefox, no extension but Dark Reader, for me it’s always close to, or as fast as Chrome
On Pixel 7
Who waits 2 min for a page to load. Sounds like aweful browsing experience. If it doesnt load in 10 sec, I wouldnt wait more. Clear catch, cookies, wipe everything if nothing else helps
Mine is faster than chrome, less than 3 seconds every time
I just recently started using Firefox on a rather old samsung, have never had any issues like this.
I get this problem too! But I never thought it was Firefox. That could definitely be the culprit but like others said it’s probably interfering apps or cookies or other data
Same here, got even the same setup on am Pixel 6 pro. It’s so unbelievably slow for me.
