What makes Firefox consume more battery on Android

venred — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:26:42 GMT

Firefox is a great browser and my favourite from long time. I recently upgraded to Android 14 phone and see Firefox consuming more battery life compared to other applications. I have signed out and not syncing to see if that improves. It did improve a bit, but still it is consuming higher battery than other browsers.

I do casual browsing and use multiple sites including X, chatgpt, various forums, news in this browser. I end up having 15+ tabs in 1 hr of browsing as it opens a new tab always whenever I go to a different site, even though that's not my intention to keep old tab open.

Battery consumption stats show around 20% of battery use for 1hr usage. In last 14 days, overall consumption of this app shows around 39% with 22hrs of usage.

This is the highest battery consumed app. Default chrome browser consumed around 10% with 10hrs of similar usage over 14 days.

I am using latest Firefox version on Android 14. I also tested many other browsers along side Firefox to see if I missed anything. I am only using unlock origin plugin and no other plugins installed.

Re: What makes Firefox consume more battery on Android

Yelik — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:49:30 GMT

In fact, speed is probably the most important parameter, which for some reason is not considered so in Mozilla. They will add new features that 1% of browser users use, but work on speed only sometimes.

How do you convey to them that they need to be the FASTEST(and energyefficient) browser on the market to survive?

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