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It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox on Android(www.androidpolice.com)

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The final push to start using Firefox over Chrome on Android might finally be thanks to the enormous selection of add-ons (Firefox’s version of extensions) coming out next month. Chrome doesn’t offer native support for extensions in its mobile app. Also, better security.

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Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.de
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Does anyone else have the problem that scrolling on a page becomes kinda laggy when there are more than usual elements on a webpage? For example, some website for streaming series. As soon as I scroll down where a lot of small buttons with episode numbers on them are rendered, Firefox on Android becomes noticeably laggy for me.

Other than that I really like it but that little problem annoys the hell out of me.

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limerod@reddthat.com
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Which websites? Can you share some examples?

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Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.de
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Try AniWatch for example and slowly scroll across the episode list.

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limerod@reddthat.com
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I tried it. It appears to be an optimization issue. Firefox struggles a bit for some reason but not Chrome. Probably can be reported on the fenix repo for Firefox.

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ditty@lemm.ee
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Confirmed laggy for me running Fennec on Android 13 on my S21.

I’ve encountered this laggy scrolling on other websites as well since switching to FF ~4 months ago.

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Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works
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Yes it does lag much more than chrome, even on S23U. Even with noscript enabled, actually. I am trying to get used to it for the last few weeks cause goddam noscript makes internet a better place.

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OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
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Chromium based browsers on Android always have been more snappy than FF. That said I have primarily used FF for around a year and it is alright. Whenever something does not behave well, I use Vivaldi.

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