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This makes me wish we had extensions in Chrome on Android. uBlock would be very welcome.

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Why not give Firefox a try then?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...

Three reasons: I want my stuff synced with my desktop running Chrome and it's horrible to use and drinks battery.

(I have already tried it)

Is your device rooted? If so, install AdAway (from the fdroid repo) or a similar host-based blocker. This takes care of a large part of the ad-related misery. I do run Firefox (well, Fennec, really, minus the obnoxious bits which Mozilla has been slipping in recently) on a 4 year old Motorola Defy. The battery lasts for about 5 days so I don't think that bit about FF 'drink[ing] battery' is correct, at least not in my case. I do not have uBlock (or any other blocker) installed as the hosts-based solution is sufficient for now.

No it's not rooted and I can't deploy our device policy on rooted devices (this is a company phone; a moto g 3rd gen).

I had terrible battery problems on a moto g2 about a year ago which is what I'm basing my opinion on so that may be invalid now.

Oh man, what a difference a year makes. I gave up on FF when it was a freshly laid turd. I tried it again a few months back on a recommendation from HN. Whoa. They've managed to polish it into a diamond.

You'd have to prize Firefox and uBlock (on my first gen Moto G) out of my cold dead hands.

Downloading now. You have at least persuaded me to have another go at it :)

Load in uBlock, and if you use it, Lastpass.

I browsed The Verge site just fine. (The images took a little longer to load than I expected, but I checked and same happens on the desktop. So it's a shitty ISP/CDN/Optimization problem rather than a browser one.)

Firefox on Android is awful. Try to load any mildly heavy webpage (such as Verge) and scroll through it, you'll see how it struggles. (This on a Nexus 5.)

The solution is not to load awfully slow webpages like Verge (see [1]), not to mention their content has been sub-par for a long time.

[1] http://blog.lmorchard.com/2015/07/22/the-verge-web-sucks/

Verge is liberal trash, but that does not mean it cannot be used as a benchmark.

That said, it can be browsed well on Chrome, so it should work on Fx as well.

Firefox on Android works great with uBlock Origin. Support open source!

I noticed a great difference on my 2011 Google Nexus 3 between adblock and uBlock Origin, in terms of memory usage.

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