Why is firefox for Android slow and jerky?

[todd...@gmail.com]

Hi

Take a look at www.expressen.se and tell me why firefox for Android is jerky and slow now days?!

It's terrible to use.

I tried Chrome but it erased my bookmarks went back to Firefox that i always have used. But lately it is terrible to use.

Why?

[Caver1]

What version of Android and Firefox are you using?
I have Android 4.4.2-Kitkat on my tablet and Firefox 35.
Just went to expression.se and it loaded as fast as on my desktop and
there is no jerkiness.
How is your ram and cache?

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[Ralph Fox]

The site loaded in less than 5 seconds for me. Scrolling was smooth.
Android 4.2.2, Firefox 35.0


There is a big flash plugin at the top of the page. I have Flash
disabled, so I just see a grey rectangle. I might speculate that
Flash could be causing performance problems, but I don't see that
myself without Flash.


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[todd...@gmail.com]

Hi

I tried turning off the addon thingy if that's what you ment?! But still it's far worse than the built in browser. I think something has happened to our Swedish news sites lately.

ToddeSwe

[chomi...@gmail.com]

YES firefox is very very slow compared to any other android web browser.
I just tested 15 seconds compared to 7 seconds for chrome to load the same page!
This is tooooo slow to be used.
I have 1GB of RAM tablet and smartphone and it does the same.

[Ron Hunter]

Exactly the same thing I found. One reason is the rendering engine, I
suppose. I have a tablet with what is considered the standard
resolution (1024x768) for Windows, so WHY does Firefox not present the
same user interface I see on my PC? Where is my bookmark toolbar? Why
does the tablet version look like it was intended for a phone? This
'one size fits all' thinking is getting a bit hard to take, so I keep
trying Firefox, in hopes they have changed, but so far, they have NOT.

[WaltS48]

Nothing like a 10 month old thread to bring Ron out to diss Firefox.
Happy to see you are okay after all that bad weather in Texas. :)

Is Firefox on Android now, the same version that Caver1 and Ralph Fox
mentioned having no problems with when they responded back in January?

Todd also mentioned something about Swedish news sites changing.

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On 10/11/2015 5:22 pm, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 12:00 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:
>> On 11/10/2015 9:54 AM, chomi...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> YES firefox is very very slow compared to any other android web browser.
>>> I just tested 15 seconds compared to 7 seconds for chrome to load the
>>> same page!
>>> This is tooooo slow to be used.
>>> I have 1GB of RAM tablet and smartphone and it does the same.
>>>
>> Exactly the same thing I found. One reason is the rendering engine, I
>> suppose. I have a tablet with what is considered the standard
>> resolution (1024x768) for Windows, so WHY does Firefox not present the
>> same user interface I see on my PC? Where is my bookmark toolbar? Why
>> does the tablet version look like it was intended for a phone? This
>> 'one size fits all' thinking is getting a bit hard to take, so I keep
>> trying Firefox, in hopes they have changed, but so far, they have NOT.
>>
>
>
> Nothing like a 10 month old thread to bring Ron out to diss Firefox.
> Happy to see you are okay after all that bad weather in Texas. :)
>
> Is Firefox on Android now, the same version that Caver1 and Ralph Fox
> mentioned having no problems with when they responded back in January?
>
> Todd also mentioned something about Swedish news sites changing.
>

It is not just Ron that thinks that way. Out of sheer cussedness -
because I just WANT Firefox to be as good as it used to be when it first
knocked the spots off Internet Explorer - I gave it another try on my
PCs, my tablet, and my phone a short while back. I persisted past the
point where I really should have realised it isn't a patch on Chrome on
the tablet and the phone (whilst reasonable on the PC, albeit missing
some compatibility with other things I use) in the interests of giving
it a fair test. I am back to Chrome on all three, and will be staying
there - unless I read that Firefox has had a major revamp to make it
competitive again.

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What if there were no hypothetical questions?

[Ron Hunter]

On 11/10/2015 11:22 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 12:00 PM, Ron Hunter wrote:
>> On 11/10/2015 9:54 AM, chomi...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> YES firefox is very very slow compared to any other android web browser.
>>> I just tested 15 seconds compared to 7 seconds for chrome to load the
>>> same page!
>>> This is tooooo slow to be used.
>>> I have 1GB of RAM tablet and smartphone and it does the same.
>>>
>> Exactly the same thing I found. One reason is the rendering engine, I
>> suppose. I have a tablet with what is considered the standard
>> resolution (1024x768) for Windows, so WHY does Firefox not present the
>> same user interface I see on my PC? Where is my bookmark toolbar? Why
>> does the tablet version look like it was intended for a phone? This
>> 'one size fits all' thinking is getting a bit hard to take, so I keep
>> trying Firefox, in hopes they have changed, but so far, they have NOT.
>>
>
>
> Nothing like a 10 month old thread to bring Ron out to diss Firefox.
> Happy to see you are okay after all that bad weather in Texas. :)
>
> Is Firefox on Android now, the same version that Caver1 and Ralph Fox
> mentioned having no problems with when they responded back in January?
>
> Todd also mentioned something about Swedish news sites changing.
>

There was a recent update, so I tried it again, and deleted it, again.
We had some bad weather, with rain, and my niece had some damage to
their property, but it missed their house. Minor damage north of here,
but nothing in my area. That's Texas weather, and much better here than
riding out hurricanes down near Galveston where I grew up.

[Ron Hunter]

I find Dolphin works nicely on my tablet, and Phone (iPhone). Don't use
Chrome at all. IE rarely, and Safari only when unavoidable.

[Bob Henson]

I used Dolphin (and liked it) for a while, but it didn't integrate well
with RoboForm. When Roboform had a spell where it no longer worked well
with any of the browsers, I switched to LastPass, and then back to
Chrome because the combination worked well. Admittedly PastPass worked
well with Firefox too, but as Firefox was poor otherwise, I stuck with
Chrome/LastPass as the optimal combination. Optimal for me, that is -
the various "browser wars" threads over the years show just how much our
requirements vary from person to person. However, it must take a rare
degree of bias for anyone to think Firefox is the best browser on Android.

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[Ron Hunter]

Since I don't use any external password system (they all seem bad for
security to me), Dolphin seems to serve my needs best at this point.
Always hoping Firefox will come around, but so far, it is still running
a bit behind.

[Ron Hunter]

On 11/10/2015 9:54 AM, chomi...@gmail.com wrote:

OK, I found the current version of Firefox for IOS. Seems that there is
a Firefox for iPhone that is NOT the same, and costs $5. I installed
the free version, and it doesn't impress me at all. It is quite fast on
the iPhone 6, but lacks anything that I normally identify with Firefox,
either in the user interface, or extensibility. I guess it is a start.

[e.sam...@gmail.com]

I have been using Firefox on my old S3 for 2 years now and it's been a great and robust browser with great plugins like noscript and adblock. Not sure if it was the fastest however as I never did any comparisons.

However, I just bought a Samsung Note 4, which I updated to Android 5.xx and I've noticed that the page scrolling is really jerky. If I use chrome, the scrolling is really smooth. I'm also getting lots of crashes while using Firefox but I need to try it without the plugins to make sure that they are not the cause.

Don't like bashing Firefox as I've been using it on my computer forever and would really like to be using it on my phone. Until this gets sorted, I'm using Chrome.

[card...@gmail.com]

Hmmm, wonder how I found this thread. All I had to do is type "Firefox slow on android".

I have loved using firefox since my bionic days and even through my G2's tenure. Recently upgraded to a G4 and I have to say, Firefox is slow and hesitant.

I hate using Chrome, but I'm probably going to stick with it for now.

[jacema...@gmail.com]

I've tried chrome, dolphin, firefox, android browser, adblock browser (based on firefox, I think) - I wan't to use firefox, because I can add the extensions I like; but it is very slow - the other browsers aren't great either (for varying reasons) - still looking for a good android browser.

[Wolf K.]

I assume you're using it on a smartphone or Android tablet. That's the
problem: I think that's smartphones are pretty good, but they're not
really powerful enough for desktop style programs. I use the browser
built into my smartphone (Samsung S5). I have no idea what it is, but
it's more than fast enough for checking news and running the occasional
video. Seems to me that the other browsers haven't been optimised for
Android.

Footnote: I also have a Surface 2, it is a PC in tablet format running
on Win 8.1 Runs FF with no issues whatsoever.

Have a good day,

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[Christian Riechers]

On 02/28/2016 03:08 PM, Wolf K. wrote:
> Seems to me that the other browsers haven't been optimised for Android.

I suppose that's why it's called Firefox for Android?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=en

[Wolf K.]

Just because it's been ported to Android doesn't mean it's been
optimised for Android.

Have a good day.

[gmw...@gmail.com]

Op zondag 28 februari 2016 06:44:04 UTC+1 schreef jacema...@gmail.com:

I've tried Chrome (it does not support Roboform), admittedly it is fast, I tried Firefox, wayyy too slow: clicking on a link, nothing happens for a while, ended up with Dolphin, being quite fast.
I would recommend Dolphin. Also their support is okay: you can send them an email and... get a reply. Try that with the others :-)

[mustang5...@gmail.com]

A Google search came up with this post.
I'm on a Galaxy S4 running Android 4.3. Firefox V 47.0. Also have Firefox Beta. BOTH versions are SLOW. Scrolling is like it's in slow motion. It moves slow and just floats along like a person floating in zero gravity. It will scroll a bit faster if you give it a hard flick, but still not that fast. Chrome is a lot faster.... but I HATE using it (loaded with problems). Firefox used to be really fast back in the days of versions 20-25. Their reformatted versions have been rubbish.

Lets see... and then there's the problem of the text size setting. Regardless if the text size is set to HUGE or to "tiny" .. the text size will NOT change. It's the same damn problem on both normal and BETA versions. I've reported it in earlier versions but it still exists. This problem does not happen on the stock Samsung browser "Internet" (on Internet, it will change to whatever you set it on any website).

And there is also the issue of the top blue bar in Desktop Facebook site. When you zoom in, the dumb bar will just stick and zoom in to the far left side. Even if you scroll to the right side of the screen, the blue bar stays stuck on the far left edge of the search bar. Very aggravating. Chrome does not do this.

[nahiman...@gmail.com]

Try this configuration, this should fix the issue of scrolling


The following settings on firefox browser/android have to be changed to get get a smooth experience when scrolling through web pages. To access, tap in the url bar " about:config " and change the values of the following:

ui.scrolling.friction_fast : -100
ui.scrolling.friction_slow : -100
ui.scrolling.max_event_acceleration : -100
ui.scrolling.min_scrollable_distance : 200
ui.scrolling.overscroll_decel_rate : 0

[Lucifer Morningstar]

Firefox is slow on everything.

[Christian Riechers]

On 8/18/17 6:16 AM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:
> Firefox is slow on everything.

It isn't slow here.

[WaltS48]

Everything starts slow on my Win10 laptop, booting, logging in, then the
command to open the terminal to run the script that connects my DSL
account to the Internet, then the connecting to the Internet.

I blame it on things Windows is doing in the background and different
hardware.

Linux is speedy, but the CPU is 1 GB faster and I have 2 MB more RAM.

Don't know how the different graphics cards fit into the picture.

YMMV

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[Daniel]

On 19/08/2017 9:16 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 8/18/17 3:52 PM, Christian Riechers wrote:
>> On 8/18/17 6:16 AM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:
>>> Firefox is slow on everything.
>>
>> It isn't slow here.
>>
>
>
> Everything starts slow on my Win10 laptop, booting, logging in, then the
> command to open the terminal to run the script that connects my DSL
> account to the Internet, then the connecting to the Internet.
>
> I blame it on things Windows is doing in the background and different
> hardware.
>
> Linux is speedy, but the CPU is 1 GB faster and I have 2 MB more RAM.
>
> Don't know how the different graphics cards fit into the picture.
>
> YMMV
>
> ☮☮☮☮☮☮☮☮
>

WOW!! A whole 2 MB more RAM!! Golly golly gosh!! ;-P

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[s|b]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 21:52:08 +0200, Christian Riechers wrote:

> It isn't slow here.

Probably because a lot of time has passed since the OP:

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| Subject: Why is firefox for Android slow and jerky?
| From: toddeswe...gmail.com

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[pre45...@gmail.com]

On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 10:14:54 PM UTC+2, todd...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> Take a look at www.expressen.se and tell me why firefox for Android is jerky and slow now days?!
>
> It's terrible to use.
>
> I tried Chrome but it erased my bookmarks went back to Firefox that i always have used. But lately it is terrible to use.
>
> Why?

It's very slow on android, v57 is practically show stopper...

[Lucifer Morningstar]

Firefox is written by idiots. Every new version is worse than the
last.

[Wolf K]

Offer your services.

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