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So maybe my experience is unique but websites don't always test with Firefox now and some simply don't work with it. I use it anyway out of principle but occasionally I need to open Chrome.
On mobile it's even worse. Firefox is stuttery on my Pixel 8 Pro and doesn't handle more than ~20 open tabs well. The nightly version fixes the stutter but crashes all the time (it's a nightly build after all so this is expected).
Do you have a lot of add-ons for Firefox mobile? I'm on a pixel 7 and it is smooth with 3ish add-ons, but is slow if I have too many.
Just ublock origin with default configuration. My complaints aren't for page loading so much as scrolling. Stutter when scrolling is really annoying to me. Interestingly as mentioned the nightly version fixes this, even when ublock is also installed on it.
My occasional page related complaints are for stuff animating correctly. This is very rare and a minor inconvenience usually, but sometimes stops you from being able to do what you came to accomplish (usually on jank websites, rental car companies for example).
Pretending Firefox mobile is already great is counterproductive to fixing it's issues. They don't have extensive development resources particularly for the mobile version so it makes sense it's worse. But to a non-techie switching to it isn't a good experience yet. It definitely can be in the future but without at least acknowledging it's current flaws why would anyone switch who has previously tried switching?