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Finally solved the battery drain issue in Firefox Android!! (lemdro.id)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is part of the Android release for Firefox 127.0.2.

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Please leave a comment on Bug : Android idle battery drain due to Firefox if you still experience this issue after updating Firefox and restarting your phone:

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Finally! I had to uninstall FF because it was taking ~5% per hour, so in a 8h night, 40% of the battery was eaten by FF, even if I killed it there was a process somewhere

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised to see this was an issue. I've never had a battery drain issue with Firefox on my android phones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Mull for a long time and had no issues. Recently installed Iceraven, phone got quite hot already after minutes of using it, battery drained fast. Not sure that is this but it sounds like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah latest updates to Iceraven have been killing my battery as of late, guess it was an upstream issue and I gotta wait for a new version.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I'm reading this patch note correctly, they didn't actually fix it using too much battery, it seems they fixed android over reporting the battery used?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

That's what it sounds like to me, but it's a bit unclear admittedly.