Firefox

Nope, it's very snappy for me. I use both Firefox and Mull on Android with ublock.

Clear cache/app data and try again?

Mine has always been super snappy, so something's definately off I'd say.

For me it's the dark reader extension. Which slows down loading a lot. Try turning it off and compare.

There a lot of discussion about it online

No.

I recently switched to Firefox even on mobile and I didn't notice any slowness

I use vanilla Firefox, no extension but Dark Reader, for me it’s always close to, or as fast as Chrome

On Pixel 7

Who waits 2 min for a page to load. Sounds like aweful browsing experience. If it doesnt load in 10 sec, I wouldnt wait more. Clear catch, cookies, wipe everything if nothing else helps

What phone are you using?

I wonder whether this could have anything to do with DNS lookups working different in Chrome. Assuming Chrome on mobile directly goes to google DNS too.

Or maybe FF also getting IPv6 records for your affected targets and there being some slow or bad connection there.

But personally I don't have much experience debugging such things on Android.

Try disabling all add ons. I'm using firefox on all my devices, some of them pretty old mobiles and all work good. Some extensions like already mentioned dark reader are absolute perf killers.

the about:blank pages sucks

Try installing Mull (Firefox fork) from F-Droid and see if you have the same issues

I don't have this issue, it does seem to take a couple of seconds more, but not the minutes you are talking about. This even on a slower Exynos 9611.

I have experienced Firefox take a long time to load (a minute or more) the first page after it has been suspended or not used in a while. For instance, if I am in my chat app (weechat-android) and I click a link to open it in Firefox, it may take a minute or more to load. However, after that initial load, it is mostly OK and behaves normally.

It's annoying and sucks... but I can live with it.

I get this problem too! But I never thought it was Firefox. That could definitely be the culprit but like others said it's probably interfering apps or cookies or other data

Which version do you have installed? Up until 112 or so, I would've agreed that it's much slower but not anymore. If something loads more than 10 seconds, there's something really wrong with the server or internet speed.

I have a really crappy old phone, and Firefox plus ublock plus privacy badger still works great for me. However, I had to uninstall it and reinstall it when I first set up that phone, for reasons I never could figure out.

Annoyingly, after an OTA, same deal. Had to reinstall Firefox or it was garbage.

Mine is faster than chrome, less than 3 seconds every time

I just recently started using Firefox on a rather old samsung, have never had any issues like this.

Try other browsers or even Firefox nightly and see if you get the same performance, If so it’s not browser related

Yes, it feels sluggish and sometimes loads pages forever. No idea why, everything else works fine. Oh and the firefox notifications block interaction which is solidly insane

Once in a while I hit a tab that takes way too long to load. Closing the tab and opening a new one is what fixes that.

But other than that... I have 100 Firefox tabs open.

I have been experiencing that with the new Firefox ever since it was released, despite having less tabs open (0-4 instead of a few dozen) and using less addons (this is not a deliberate choice)

But, for me loading of websites never hang indefinitely, it is just extremely slow

Do you have multiple tabs open or other apps running in the background? If so close them all and retest.

Try restarting your phone and see if that improves the issue as well. That phone has 4GB of memory most likely which can hinder multitasking.