• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Oh.

      TBH Chromium based browsers are kind of king on Android; there’s just too much optimization work from Google compared to Mozilla. And Cromite’s integrated adblocker/antifingerprinting is super fast.

      That… and on Play Store Waterfox I’m seeing reviews like this:

      After a September update, I noticed that my browser was randomly going back a page from time to time. At first, I thought it was an extension-related bug, but it eventually redirected me to some travel agency while I was looking up an image. I realized that this app had become adware and quickly uninstalled it. Severely disappointed, especially given the promises of a privacy-respecting Firefox fork.

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        9 hours ago

        Peculiar, i haven’t seen any such behaviour. It gets a bit wiggy on tumblr, but i just assumed that’s because that site’s code is a hot mess

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          7 hours ago

          Yeah, it’s big pages with tons of scrolling/media (like Tumblr) that make Android chug. Sometimes I type/paste really long things into text boxes, and mobile Firefox was nigh unusable for that.

          Cromite seems much easier on battery too, especially in tandem with adblocking (as any extension slows browsers down).

          None of this is necessarily true on desktop though. In fact, Firefox seems better than Cromite on Linux in similar scenarios, but the difference feels small since everything is so fast anyway.