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Re:Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the brows... by mod50ack on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:55PM (#28648709)
There are such options on Firefox. Auto close and close on quit, although annoyingly the latter now requires choosing quit from the app menu instead of just closing the app like a few years ago. There is also "close all tabs" if you just hold the tab button, as well as in the ... menu on the tab screen
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Re:Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the brows... by Helmut10001 on Saturday September 25, 2021 @02:24AM (#28650960)
You are right. My point is that you have to take steps to close tabs, if it is just "explicitly closing Firefox". On Desktop, the browser will be terminated on shutdown. Shutdown does not apply to phones. If I want to close all tabs the second I lock my phone - no such thing. It would be enough having a "Stop all Apps&Tabs at 12am" feature.

This is really why I avoid browsing things on my phone at all, or use self-hosted progressive web apps that run in dedicated tasks.

Btw. - can someone explain why my initial comment is downvoted - Is it because my use case appears ignorant or unusually extravagant?

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