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		la_fayette on Jan 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla lays off 70 Cpu usage of chrome is higher on chrome on mobile. Cpu affects battery life more than memory... so firefox is a good choice on mobile.

The_rationalist on Jan 15, 2020 [–]

Websites are not tested for Firefox for Android.

tomrod on Jan 15, 2020 | [–]

Indeed. I keep Brave around just to handle the 5% of sites that are decidedly not FF friendly.

FF -- fix text sizing. As an example, old-style Reddit renders wonderfully on Brave and terribly terribly small on FF mobile. Another tester site is BOFH.

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