I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long to open and load pages
Really?
I use both Firefox and Chrome on Android, and both seem similar and ok to me. Firefox appears to be a bit faster, with uBlock, as my network is not always fast.
Which websites do you mainly use?
I keep chrome mainly for the google websites and services.
Aah. Have you filed a bug report on it with the info? Maybe they’ll fix it if it is common?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
I think the homepage can be made lighter by using the customize homepage option and removing unwanted stuff.