I’m doing my best to continue using Firefox, but it’s becoming incredibly annoying, and I’m seriously at my wit’s end and just about to give up on it permanently.
I’ve noticed during video calls it causes my computer to completely freeze up and require a reboot sometimes.
And on my phone, sometimes when I’m reading, it will just make my screen completely stop responding to me and I have to force reboot my phone in order to fix it.
I know that Gecko is the only other web engine option to fight Chromium’s Blink, but I’m seriously just about fed up enough with Firefox to say fuck it.
Servo or ladybird may be the only real hope left.
Oneplus nord n200 5g, and no. I do use a private DNS system wide from control D that blocks out known ads and malware, but nothing else on the device is affected.
Okay, that’s the problem. 4GB of RAM isn’t enough for modern Android. I know because it’s what I have on my tablet and it’s bullshit, if I use certain apps, others in the background are force closed, etc. All I can say is that with some of the changes taking place with the switch to Jetpack Compose, Firefox is getting better in terms of a smaller memory footprint, but that’s little consolation for you now and your urgent/present needs.
BTW, well done for using a private DNS for stopping the problem at the root.
I’m running Lineage OS and everything else runs fine. My RAM usage doesn’t seem to be the problem, or at least not that I can tell. I’ve looked under the system monitor and developer options and seen no problems.
As I said, I have a low memory device so I’m talking from experience.
In fact Google itself says that devices with less than 6GB of RAM should be running Android Go rather than Android 16.
Honestly, devices designed to be obsolete are a pain for everyone. We need devices that are designed to be usable in a few years, that means shipping them with decent processors, memory and storage. By Android 17, the minimum memory requirement is likely to be 8GB and there’s going to be a bunch of people wondering why some apps, the more complex ones like browsers, don’t run smoother.
Maybe a solution is that Firefox starts serving older devices an ESR.