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Mozilla will open Firefox for Android for more extensions
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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I use FF on android for a couple months now. Solid browser and sync to desktol and add blocker are nice.
BUT: their page reloading is far too aggressive. You can't buy anything online, since once 2FA is required and you need to open your bank app, confirm, and switch back, the page reloads and the 2FA didn't get through. Tickets and such are the only reason I have still chrome installed.
This is Android aggressively killing apps, not Firefox.
Possibly, but previously I've been able to load a site, open a media-rich page in a new tab, then close that tab to go back to the original page.
On a newer build of FF for Android, that first page is re-loaded from the internet.
Hmm, I'm not experiencing that. Could Android (well, the flavour used by your phone) be killing background apps too aggressively or something like that?
Edit: could also be a RAM thing. I have 12GB.
I'm not experiencing that issue either and I have half the amount of RAM that you do. I've noticed an unnecessary autorefresh only after closing out of the browser for a long time, never in the middle of switching between apps. But, that does sound like annoying behavior.
Wow, I'm pretty sure my laptop has less RAM than that. ~Cherri
You can get 32GB of laptop RAM for like $60 to $80 if you find sales, and even one 16GB stick would be an upgrade for you. Modern bloat is so bad that having 8 gigs of RAM is the equivalent of having 4 a few years ago.
My laptop only supports expanding the RAM up to 12 GB IIRC. ~Red
This annoyed me too. I use Firefox Nightly with
accessibility.blockautorefreshset inabout:config, and it helps.https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1204335
I feel this pain. But you try to stop a video that started playing in Firefox. I dare you.
Its in notification with background play lol
Yes but a video should stop if you swipe away the apps card from multitasking view. This action is tantamount to closing the app.
Mine stop maybe because i have background battery restriction/autostart prevention. Not sure tho
Strange. I'll look into those settings. Thanks
I checked this with youtube now and it pauses the video as soon as its in the background and I can play from notifications. Try updating too btw
The video pauses atm of swiping away from the recent deck something magical is happening with your phone i use lineageos btw
Yeah, I open my 2FA app in split screen when I do this
had that issue since updating my phone to android 13, mozilla really needs to fix it
I also feel RAM too aggressive since A13, but it could be my custom ROM as well.
Huh, good to know.
I've found edge to be quite aggressive on the reloads as well (at least, on desktop).
Makes it difficult for developing anything that has to deal with tabs going to "sleep" (like websocket reconnects, rehydrations, reauths).
I'm a hair away from ditching chrome