I’ve got a brand new Pixel 8 and my battery isn’t making it through the day. Android tells me Firefox is eating it up in the background. I just changed it to restricted battery use and I’ll see if that helps.

I do not want to switch to Brave or Chrome, but this is intolerable. What are you favorite Firefox alternatives and why? Mull? Librewolf?

  • @mertnEnglish
    27•9 months ago

    I wouldn’t trust a google phone telling you that a competitors browser is problematic

    • @monty33@lemmy.mlOP
      4•9 months ago

      That is a good point, but if it’s not Firefox like my pixel is telling me, then what else could it be on a brand new phone? (I know you can’t answer this)

      • @mertnEnglish
        10•9 months ago

        It is probably all the google telemetry and monitoring and wifi scanning to map your location for sale that is running in the background. I plan on getting a pixel 7a soon but will immediately wipe the google junk and load grapheneos. Apart from getting rid of all the spyware this also doubles the battery run times.

            • @Newchair@lemmy.world
              1•8 months ago

              Yes but I dont have a pixel and I use mostly foss apps on my phone. The few nonfree apps are in a shelter sandbox (not sure how comparable this is to graphene’s sandboxing).

          • ScottEnglish
            3•8 months ago

            Banking, most likely (depending on the bank).

            Google Pay/Wallet/whatever-it’s-called-today, no.

            • @Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1•8 months ago

              Yeah I used to use lineage on OnePlus 5 I think. But safety net wouldn’t allow my bank to work and obviously broke pay.

              Unfortunately that’s a deal breaker. Until there’s another system to pay. Miband, ring , fingerprint whatever.

              I need to keep Google for those things. I haven’t used cash since 2018

    • kratoz29English
      0•8 months ago

      Maybe Google does not, but I sometimes see Firefox Beta as the top process in FKM using a custom ROM rooted.

      I love Firefox, I like that as it is not a system app it is easier to keep the data with tools like Swiftbackup along with multiple ROMs, taking my cookies logins etc saves lots of time, but it doesn’t feel snappier than Chrome for me (I used Chrome with AdAway) hopefully things change in the future.