Is this much battery usage normal for Firefox Android?
Is this much battery usage normal for Firefox Android?
I tried regular Firefox and nightly both show such usage. I'm mostly reading up on news, Twitter and browsing this site.
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Battery usage depends a lot on what kind of websites you're browsing. Simple, static sites don't use much. Javascript heavy sites can drain the battery fast, especially if a script is misbehaving. Most sites these days have loads of javascript.
It looks like it's been using a lot of power in the background. You can try setting Android to restrict the background power usage for Firefox.
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In my experience Android battery stats are largely worthless. I know for a fact that it produces complete nonsense quite often and shows high values for apps that are configured to force stop on exit and have no background permission.
I assume you have ublock running? Otherwise disabling background activity for it might help.
Also, that 40% figure is not a battery percentage, nor is it a percentage of battery usage from full charge, its the worst possible statistic that could have been used: a percentage of battery usage where "100%" is the total recorded battery usage of all things in the category you're viewing.
And no that isn't clear or well documented in any way.
There is this view which is much more useful, but im not sure how accurate it is either.