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I use it for 95% of my browsing, with exactly the extensions you mention, but I do have to recognize it's stability is rough at times. Every now and then I run into a site that fails hard, crashing the entire UI on my Pixel 6 Pro.

Admittedly I haven't tried disabling extensions and finding the root cause. I just switch to Chrome for that task.

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I use Firefox on mobile every day (with uBlock Origin and Tampermonkey extensions), and I don't recall it ever crashing on me. Pixel 6a, and a Xiaomi thing previously.

Interesting. The only issues I've found in the past few years is that running multiple profiles and using the picture-in-picture pop-out sometimes causes a missing cursor or small pop-up window.

No doubt Chrome's more modern stack and hefty resources help in ironing out hardware-specific quirks.

Same, Firefox on Android is extremely buggy for me. I experience frequent crashes because I have too many tabs open at once. Multiple times per day, I have to restart the app because the theme will bug between light and dark, which makes some of the UI text unreadable. And sometimes when I restart, I lose some of my most recent tabs for some reason. Very frustrating, but Firefox Sync and extension support are essential for me, so I deal with it.

By the way, I actually use Fennec from F-Droid and not Firefox from the Google Play Store, if that matters.

FWIW I also use Fennec from F-Droid and I'm getting very slow behaviour and crashes with lots of tabs open (between 10-30). I don't have the theme change or tabs missing though.

I've been meaning to try different Firefox distributions though because switching away from Firefox isn't really an option for the reasons you've stated.

Oh that's interesting, glad I'm not the only one. Maybe I will try the Google Play version instead.

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