I swear I saw something like this here on Lemmy but I can’t find it.

I know android manages the RAM very differently than any desktop OS as it frees up RAM in order to have it available for other processes being third party or core ones.

I remember I saw something that you could fiddle with within the Firefox config page.

Or is it not possible on Android?

I’m using Firefox Nightly, because I think it is the only version that has a working pull to refresh.

  • SleepyWheel
    118·
    1 year ago

    I never found a solution, switch to Brave. Still use Firefox on desktop

      • SleepyWheel
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

          • SleepyWheel
            1·
            1 year ago

            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)

        • sugar_in_your_tea
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.