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Again, Firefox is causing a huge battery drain on my Android device when it's not running. I've set everything up so that it has no chance of running in the background, yet last night I saw a 6% battery consumption, a large part of which was caused by Firefox. To avoid this, every time I exit I have to force close it.

I need a browser that works across all my devices, I would like it to be fully open source and have synchronization between my computer and smartphone. I would prefer it not to be based on Chromium. Firefox, if it didn’t have this issue, still consumes a lot of battery when in use and is slow on Android, but I could accept that. But for it to drain so much battery when not in use, no. Any suggestions for something I might have missed?

#Android #Browsers #Firefox #Chromium

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

For it to show a drain over that time, it must've somehow been running in the background, right?

Managing background apps on Android is a challenge without root.

Maybe try setting up another user profile (the "Work Profile") and run it there? Using apps like Island, you can launch apps in other profiles without actively switching profiles. I do this for crappy apps that like to run all the time - Island will shut down those apps however you want. If nothing else, signing out of that profile ends the app, while your main profile continues.

That said, I don't see this use with Firefox, and I'm a real bastard to my phones. My current Firefox stat is 8% over the last 3 hours,and I've been using it.

I also run Mull, which is a fork of Firefox with some stuff removed. It seems a little better on battery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@[email protected] thank you for the hints!