Firefox on Android suddenly ate 10GB of mobile data, can I find out how?
Firefox on Android suddenly ate 10GB of mobile data, can I find out how?
Just wondering if I can somehow track if all that data was used by a particular add-on or tab or what.
Historically I've been using about .5gb every month, I haven't done anything different today but here we are. What can I do to find out what happened and prevent the same scenario?
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Sorry, can't math very well, carry on
Android's app data usage is what tells me it was Firefox.
I probably overstated things with the word suddenly, but it was over the one day. And since I am on WiFi at home and at work, and it probably happened in one block of time (as WiFi data usage does not show a spike) I would have to conclude it happened within a 2 to 2.5-hour window. You do make a good point about the max rate, I've no clue what it is out there. I'll have to check if it can even possibly fit.
I was browsing over a solid half of that time, but no videos just furniture stores and some forum. And the battery did in fact drain quite fast even though I didn't think much of it on the moment. I was not throttled but just lost data access once my allowance was used up, because that's how it works on my pay as you go plan, I'm based in the UK. Of course it had to happen on day 1 of my monthly 🙃
Even in the best environment, that’s still more than 1.5 hours of maximum data usage.
You are off by an order of magnitude buddy. 140M(bit?) means 10 gigabytes consumed in
10000/(140/8)/60 =10 minutes, not hours. Data cap anxiety unfortunately is a reality for many mobile subscribers. You visit one wrong website and in 1 minute 10% of your monthly allowance is *poof* gone. The cell networks will happily let you do it because they can upsell you on refills later.