Why is Firefox for Android so unstable?

Multiple times a day, this stupid browser crashes. Ive tried reinstalling, clearing the cache, multiple times, all to no avail.
What gives?

Please provide crash IDs. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozillacrashreporter about how to retrieve them.

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