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.
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.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
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 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