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?

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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)

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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.

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But does Google pay and banking apps work ?

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Banking, most likely (depending on the bank).

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

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Was thinking about doing this also but not sure if its worth it as im already using lineage

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If you value the extra privacy and security, then it’s absolutely worth it.

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