778155 - Reports of Fennec Slow on ICS

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&reviewId=10737823562270636469
Is one Review, have seen others that mention Firefox 14.0.1 for Mobile being slow upon upgrading to ICS. Perhaps something we should investigate. I'm going to do more digging, see if this s device specific.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Reported path seems like 14.0.1 (installed) on Android 2.3.x and then device upgrading to 4.0.x.

This at least can be testable using factory images for rolling back on Google Nexus devices (https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images).

Do we know what devices people are reporting with?

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Here is a review that seems to mention a similar issue:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&reviewId=03378471825864669560
Xperia play ICS 4.0.4

Seems to be opening and exiting the browser that are causing the slowness.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Ran the following:

* Rolled back my Samsung Nexus S (850MHz version, i9020a) Android 2.3.6 (GRK39F)
* Installed Firefox 14.0.1, set-up Sync and visited a few sites
* Got the update to Android 4.0.4 (IMM76D)
* Started Firefox and noticed no difference, shutdown Firefox and noticed no difference.

There was no discernible difference upon upgrading using Firefox 14.0.1 at least on my device tested.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This doesn't seem to be an issue on Release or Beta anymore, testing on my HTC One X with ICS doesn't seem to be a performance issue.