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High battery usage on android (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 years ago by Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I recently noticed that Firefox for me has pretty high battery usage, more than twice of what Connect (Lemmy) has at ~75% the screen time.
Could this be because of extensions? I'm using Dark Reader and uBlock Origin

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[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How many tabs do you have open? I have quite a few and it can cause battery to drop a lot. It also occasionally starts using a lot of battery in the background for no apparent reason, which is fixed by just force-quitting the app.

It could also just be that Firefox is inherently more energy intensive than a Lemmy client. Browsers have to handle a lot of stuff to render web pages, while clients for sites just have to send some API calls. I might try using another browser for a few days and see if the battery usage is comparable to Firefox.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

I usually just have 1-2 tabs open, at most 4-5