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After a recent update, Chrome is nearly unusable on my spare 1 year old Moto G4 phone. There is a massive lag when I try to type in text on any website.

Chrome's RAM hogging tendencies on desktop have also made me search for an alternative for my PC. Sadly, Firefox is long way from its former glory. Any suggestions?

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Have you actually tried Firefox? They've had a pretty big update recently, which also broke many extensions and ways of making advanced extensions, so some people do take that as reason to say that it's now "long way from its former glory", but if you've been a Chrome user up until now, it'd strike me as odd for you to think that, since it's still much more extensible than Chrome.

Well, unless you haven't seen the new update yet and are talking of the performance problems that it had prior to this update. In that case, you should try the new version.

Firefox is much slower than Chrome on Android, at least on my (reasonably powerful) Qualcomm 625

Interesting.

I've found in terms of speed: Opera > Firefox > Chrome. I suspect it is due primarily to ads.

I'm pretty happy with Firefox Focus on a Moto G3. Some people may not like the lack of features in that browser however, e.g. no history, no cookies saved, etc.

> Some people may not like the lack of features in that browser however, e.g. no history, no cookies saved, etc.

That's kind of the point of Focus, it's meant to be a private browser. You can also get regular Firefox with uBlock Origin to have a similar experience with these features, if this annoys you.

Firefox with uBlock installed gives a much faster overall experience on my device compared to using Google Chrome. Ads have become such a nightmare on mobile sites.

When did you last try it? If it was anything more than a month ago you might want go give it another spin, and/or try a Beta or Nightly build, as the Quantum revamps aren't all enabled yet in the stable channel of the Android edition.

Checkout Brave—runs 3-6x faster on Android than Chrome due to blocking ads and fingerprinting: https://brave.com/

I use Opera as my main browser on IOS desktop, along with Brave. Brave is my main android browser

What are the pros and cons of Brave compared to Opera on mobile?

I haven't tried opera on android so can't say. I do like the way Brave blocks ads, tracking and 3rd party cookies on a mobile device, something I'm pretty paranoid about

Have you tried Firefox Quantum? While not featherweight, it's less of a resource hog than it used to be, while being commendably fast.

Minor note: the under-the-hood improvements of Quantum will be coming to the Firefox Android version 58. The current stable version only has the UI tweaks.

For the release schedule, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

I have a 2015 moto g with lineageOS Nougat and don't see any issues with chrome or firefox (I use firefox on android as my default)

No problem with Chrome here, but I've heard Samsung's browser runs a lot smoother.

It does and also has adblock. Its also super easy to use for safari users since it nearly replicates its layout.

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