diff --git a/.changeset/sharp-dingos-admire.md b/.changeset/sharp-dingos-admire.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..aeb1b082ad5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/sharp-dingos-admire.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@firebase/firestore": patch
+---
+
+Re-enable useFetchStreams with the latest WebChannel implementation. This reduces the memory usage of WebChannel.
diff --git a/packages/firestore/src/platform/browser/webchannel_connection.ts b/packages/firestore/src/platform/browser/webchannel_connection.ts
index aa790f0ac2b..83e8faef88a 100644
--- a/packages/firestore/src/platform/browser/webchannel_connection.ts
+++ b/packages/firestore/src/platform/browser/webchannel_connection.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import {
   EventTarget,
   StatEvent,
   Event,
-  FetchXmlHttpFactory,
   Stat
 } from '@firebase/webchannel-wrapper/webchannel-blob';
 
@@ -209,7 +208,7 @@ export class WebChannelConnection extends RestConnection {
     }
 
     if (this.useFetchStreams) {
-      request.xmlHttpFactory = new FetchXmlHttpFactory({});
+      request.useFetchStreams = true;
     }
 
     this.modifyHeadersForRequest(
diff --git a/packages/firestore/test/integration/api/query.test.ts b/packages/firestore/test/integration/api/query.test.ts
index c7681fb56c9..01fd0e47e35 100644
--- a/packages/firestore/test/integration/api/query.test.ts
+++ b/packages/firestore/test/integration/api/query.test.ts
@@ -2217,6 +2217,51 @@ apiDescribe('Queries', persistence => {
       });
     }
   ).timeout('90s');
+
+  it('can query large documents with multi-byte character strings', () => {
+    function randomMultiByteCharString(length: number): string {
+      const charCodes: number[] = [];
+
+      for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+        charCodes.push(randInt(1, 65535));
+      }
+
+      return String.fromCharCode(...charCodes);
+    }
+
+    function randInt(min: number, max: number): number {
+      const scale = max - min + 1;
+      return Math.floor(Math.random() * scale);
+    }
+
+    let bigString = randomMultiByteCharString(10000);
+
+    // Encode and decode `bigString` to/from UTF-8 to
+    // ensure that any transformations applied during
+    // UTF-8 encoding are applied equally to the expected
+    // and actual results.
+    const textEncoder = new TextEncoder();
+    const textDecoder = new TextDecoder();
+    bigString = textDecoder.decode(textEncoder.encode(bigString));
+
+    const doc = {
+      field: bigString
+    };
+
+    expect(bigString).to.deep.equal(bigString);
+
+    return withTestCollection(
+      persistence,
+      { 1: doc },
+      async collectionReference => {
+        const querySnap = await getDocs(collectionReference);
+        expect(querySnap.size).to.equal(1);
+
+        const fieldValue = querySnap.docs[0].get('field');
+        expect(fieldValue).to.deep.equal(bigString);
+      }
+    );
+  });
 });
 
 apiDescribe('Hanging query issue - #7652', persistence => {