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
@stefano@bsd.cafe Phones can be weird and I spent hours just trying to figure things out. It sounds like Firefox is running or was running for some time. How is your signal. I have noticed when I worked in the boonies with bad or no cell reception that my battery didn’t last nearly as long. This was due to the phone using more power to access the cell network. Firefox could be using more power if there is a script or page that updates at a certain amount of time (think news pages updating the page every few mnutes) and trying to pull the page.
Have you checked what data is being up at night or any updates happening in the background
@culper@infosec.exchange I’m usually connected via WiFi, so it shouldn’t be related to mobile signal.
I think that something gets stuck and continues to run, even if the app isn’t allowed to run in the background.
I’ll try with Fennec and Mull, just to see if it is related to any kind of telemetry