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Re:Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the brows... by chmod775 on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:23AM (#28640572)
That's wrong. You can clear both cache and data of a system app on a typical Android device. You just can't uninstall it.

The base .apk is stored on a read-only system partition, so you can't completely get rid of it, but typically you should be able to remove all data of that app, clear its cache, uninstall any updates it downloaded (since those are stored on another partition), and also disable it.

I haven't used any OS by Xiaomi in a while, so I don't know if they changed anything about that.

Though I used to run their MIUI OS on my Samsung Galaxy (S2 or S5, I don't remember) for a while. That one was the opposite of locked down and even shipped pre-rooted, but it's been a long time.

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Re:Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the brows... by junon on Friday September 24, 2021 @07:47AM (#28641114)
Nope. Chrome's storage lists "0b" for its storage, which causes XiaoMi's OS to grey out the memory panel for the app. You cannot, for whatever reason, clear the app cache in Chrome's case.

However, sure enough, tab instances persist even across killing the app and then force stopping it.

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Re:Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the brows... by zamadatix on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:09PM (#28654624)
What happens if you disable?
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