Firefox is not staying in the background, not even for a minute. When I am just minimizing and returning to Firefox, it just reloads every tab, including the private tab. Any solution for this?

  • morrowind
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    1 year ago

    Android? Go into the system app settings and make sure any sort of battery optimization is turned off.

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          1 year ago

          Haha, well… It’s a Samsung Galaxy from Android 10 era and, apparently, it has terrible Settings. Whenever I try to say “Don’t optimize” on any app, it changes the label, but only for a brief moment, which effectively does not turn off any optimization.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve the same thing. This is a very old issue and it’s still not resolved. It seems Android prefers Chromium based browsers as it doesn’t happen there. I tried everything, nothing helped. So had to revert to Brave.

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    1 year ago

    It could be that you have too many other apps in the background, and Android is essentially freeing up memory for other processes. If you have too many tabs open this could also occur. You could also have your battery saving options too aggressive, which also clears data from background apps. I’d look up something like “how to keep Android from stopping apps in the background” or something similar.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    This happens to me too, no matter how much free RAM I have, disabled battery optimizations, etc…

    Only Firefox does it, other browsers are fine.

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    1 year ago

    Seems silly but cannot you not keep it active, as in pinned? Does that make any difference? I tend to do that when I needed to keep something alive and exactly as I left it when I switched through apps.