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?
I’m curious why you think it was Firefox. In any situation, US based mobile networks, on a practical scale, top out around 140M per second in very robust, and not highly deployed environments. Usually those will be highlighted as 5G Ultra Wideband (Verizon’s term i think) or something. Even in the best environment, that’s still more than 1.5 hours of maximum data usage. You would be throttled back way before this point, so you’re not looking at something you did suddenly. It’s likely weeks of effort.
Are you watching a lot of YouTube, TikTok, porn, or some other video service in your browser lately? If not, then it’s not likely you’re browser. If you are, I’d recommend getting the app specific to the service you’re using. They can sometimes leverage non- standard codecs to reduce bandwidth usage while streaming. Also turn off autoplay on videos during your doom scrolls.
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 🙃