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I was hoping someone could help figure out Firefox speed problem. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm using Firefox mobile and pulling up any webpage is very slow. One of the big things is searching using the address bar, has a load time of at least 10 seconds (using ddg as default). Switching default search engines does not help.

One thing of note is that in a private tab, everything works normally. I tested multiple times using the same method as above.

Hopefully this can be remedied with a simple settings tweak.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at your extensions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only using ublock, and turning it off doesn't help. I have ublock enabled in private tabs too so I don't think that would be the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What does the FF Task Manager show? Its under the more tools, possibly Shift+ESC (at least on Linux it is). Anything hogging your memory or CPU?

Edit: I missed FF Mobile, try about:processes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nightly shows around 2.5% The other 3 are all under 1%

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have autosuggestions for search only on non-private tabs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looks like I get "Firefox suggestions" in both, but search engine specific suggestions only in normal tabs. It gives me an option to turn that on in private. Would that be the culprit? I'll try to turn it off and see.

Edit: turned it off, and doesn't seem to change anything. Private tabs are still noticably faster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is your CPU?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's FF mobile on the s24+, whatever cpu this has should be able to handle it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've noticed slow Internet can significantly slow the client side UI for some reason. Perhaps something with the tracking or DNS is different in private and the additional network usage is causing it to lag

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I was thinking too. I might have to play around with the settings.