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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] nfsu2@feddit.cl -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dark reader has lost popularity because I think its spyware now, but to the point: uB origin is super light on resources so I do not think so.

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DarkReader is open-source, and on the Firefox recommended extensions list; what are you talking about?

[–] nfsu2@feddit.cl 0 points 1 year ago

Many "recommended" add-ons have terrible reviews because of some very negative aspect they have. And I am not talking for myself, its just the reviews. The reason I made the comment is to make people aware of it, no criticism behind.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Spyware? When did that happen?

[–] joat_mon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'd like to know this as well as I use DarkReader on all my devices.

I read in the past that it was hijacking page links but it transpired that people were downloading clones from unofficial sources.

[–] nfsu2@feddit.cl -1 points 1 year ago

Not sure, but I read comments on the mozilla add-ons site and somewhere else. And I did not see any reason why not to uninstall it since in some sites dark reader was counter productive. Just what I read…