Again, Firefox is causing a huge battery drain on my Android device when it’s not running. I’ve set everything up so that it has no chance of running in the background, yet last night I saw a 6% battery consumption, a large part of which was caused by Firefox. To avoid this, every time I exit I have to force close it.

I need a browser that works across all my devices, I would like it to be fully open source and have synchronization between my computer and smartphone. I would prefer it not to be based on Chromium. Firefox, if it didn’t have this issue, still consumes a lot of battery when in use and is slow on Android, but I could accept that. But for it to drain so much battery when not in use, no. Any suggestions for something I might have missed?

#Android #Browsers #Firefox #Chromium

  • Stefano Marinelli@mastodon.bsd.cafeOP
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    22 days ago

    @justine it happens from time to time. It hasn’t been happening for weeks, then a couple of days ago it started behaving this way again.
    What I don’t tolerate is that it I say “no background processing”, I expect no background processing 😉

    • Doerk@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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      22 days ago

      @[email protected] @[email protected] The one and only real question is: why is nobody able to build a good, reliable, secure and trustworthy browser? Seems like we only have the choice between plague and cholera. On the one side there is Firefox, secure and privacy aware, but with terrible performance, and on the other side there are the chromium’s. Fast, but with questionable privacy. But none of them is really good. It’s a shame