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Keeping tabs without refresh in Android?
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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Are you implying your tabs don't refresh with Brave?
Yes. If I'm away long enough they might, but I've just switched back to Brave after about an hour away, and no refresh. Whereas Firefox would refresh every time I switched app, which made it unusable for me. E.g. enter username on a webpage, switch to password manager to copy password, switch back and Firefox reloads the page. Infuriating
Yes yes I have exactly the same problem. Super annoying!
It's a shame because I really want to use Firefox. I'm sure this is partly aggressive memory management on Android, and maybe especially on MIUI (do you have a Xiaomi by any chance?) But none of the Chrome derivatives have this issue (Brave, Vivaldi, Privacy Browser all work fine for me)
Yeah got a Redmi Note 10 Pro. Brave and Chrome are fine indeed.
I've only had that happen on some websites, most don't seem to do it. So maybe it only unloads heavier pages?
That said, most of the time my password manager, Bitwarden, will prompt to auto fill on web pages so it's not an issue. So I don't run into this issue all that often, surely not enough to warrant switching browsers, especially when I value Firefox features like tab sync.