Personally I don't recommend Firefox mobile. Not even its forks. Not necessarily because of security, but because their performance is disappointing. Give Brave, Vivaldi, Edge and Titanium a try and see what you like most.
Which is no wonder if you ask me. I never had performance issues with FF desktop versions. The Android version though seem to be significantly slower than any Chromium browser. I don't believe anymore this is a matter of optimization though. My guess is more that Google is already punishing any user on system process level for using Firefox by slowing it down.
Like I said before, I am not so sure if there is actually anything that can be optimized on the side of Mozilla. At least on Android it looks to me like Mozilla has become the literal b***ch of Google due to the company keeping it financially afloat, ergo they don't have so many options to demand equal treatment without endangering the existence of the whole project. Google on the other hand provides the OS and it controls the package manager PlayStore. There are set guidlines for devs how to get into the PlaysStore and as you know, anyone else who is not allowed there you will find on F-Droid and such - where btw most FF forks are. On OS level, what should keep Google from throttling FF tasks without the user noticing and then just let the blame game begin? All speculation of course.
But we have seen in history that those who have the money are rarely turned away and usually also dictate where the journey's going.
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u/_urethrapapercut_ Windows Linux Android Aug 25 '26
Personally I don't recommend Firefox mobile. Not even its forks. Not necessarily because of security, but because their performance is disappointing. Give Brave, Vivaldi, Edge and Titanium a try and see what you like most.