Finally solved the battery drain issue in Firefox Android!!
This is part of the Android release for Firefox 127.0.2.
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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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
I'm surprised to see this was an issue. I've never had a battery drain issue with Firefox on my android phones.
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?
That's what it sounds like to me, but it's a bit unclear admittedly.
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.
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.
am i right to assume that this should already be in fennec or nightly? i have fennec but i just want to make sure it's the same basic code base.
If you're on nightly, you should have the relevant patches.
I will have to give it a shot, though I am still pessimistic. I was kind of turned off by the whole Pocket or whatever advertisement thing it wanted to enable. Vivaldi has been fine for me so far.