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Autorefresh on Android (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Open any website
Switch to another app and do literally anything
Go back to Firefox
Tab reloads for ~5s and wipes all form data

Poco F3 6GB
MIUI 14.0.9
Fennec 121.1
Battery saver: No restrictions
"media.aboutwebrtc.auto_refresh" - False

I doubt ram is an issue as there is always at least 1.7GB free. This bug has been occuring or a long time. 3 years old reddit post about it

Can I fix it myself or should I wait for it to get patched? I dont know if this is appropriate place to post this, but I cant use github

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It might actually be an issue with the OEMs version of Android and it's RAM management.

Not sure if there's a way to adjust it, but you could try using LineageOS?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I do not experience this on a Pixel 6a running stock android 14

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Indeed, I do not experience it on my Samsung S22 Ultra, and I remember reading some article about how certain OEMs will change how Android manages RAM to try and improve the "experience" which results in weird behavior such as this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

There is an event when the app is not in focus and they can save their data to avoid it being deleted or the webpage reloaded. Like a snapshot of the page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I also experience this on LOS, but on an FP3 so RAM could be an issue on my end.