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1. rkange+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-26 14:14:01
I switched to Firefox for the idealogical reasons above and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a net improvement.

The only site I have compatibility issues with on desktop is MS Teams and even then it's only for voice/video calls, everything else works fine.

Firefox Android is a slightly less happy place. The password manager doesn't work very well (am moving away from the built-in one) and I can't log in on Amazon (which is important because I can't buy Kindle books in the app because of the Play Store).

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2. Pawger+V5[view] [source] 2023-07-26 14:37:05
>>rkange+(OP)
Interesting. Firefox android works great for me, but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine. I don't use their password manager on either, though, so I can't attest to that.
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3. FooBar+O9[view] [source] 2023-07-26 14:51:50
>>rkange+(OP)
Firefox Android OOMs whenever it sees an article from The Guardian.
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4. JohnFe+fb[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-26 14:57:28
>>Pawger+V5
> but Firefox windows gets very slow on my machine.

This is why I don't use FF (although I'm on Linux). It's unusably slow for me. My experience is not the most common one (indicating that there's something about my ecosystem that FF hates), but I haven't been able to make FF work in any of the releases starting a couple of years back, I think.

I don't browse on my phone at all, so I won't be using FF there purely for that reason.

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5. atq211+dg[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-26 15:13:46
>>FooBar+O9
This is just more anecdata, but I'm exclusively using Firefox on Android and have never had issues with The Guardian. In fact, at this very moment there is a Guardian article linked on the front page, and I've visited it without an issue.

I don't doubt your experience, but it's clearly not universal.

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6. teddyh+2t[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-26 15:56:12
>>Pawger+V5
Is it still slow for you? Have you tested it recently?

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7. Pawger+M81[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-07-26 18:22:47
>>teddyh+2t
Yes, it's still my default browser -- work and home. I put up with it because I browse far more on my phone than on my computer.
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