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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by utucuro on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:31AM (#30344800)
One objective fiasco is the inability of FF on Android to keep multiple tabs in memory. Older versions were capable of it without issue, ever since the tab unloading feature, Firefox has been reloading tabs at the slightest pretense.

Switch apps? Tabs get reloaded when you're back.

Lock & unlock phone with Firefox in focus? Tabs get reloaded

Switch tabs in Firefox? Tabs get reloaded...

I wish I was just ranting, but all of the above happens with a single active tab loaded...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by dvogel on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:25PM (#30349555)
That is interesting to me because that isn't my experience. I just tried the lock screen for example and I couldn't get any of tabs to reload, foreground or not. I'm on Android 10 running on a Moto G7. Maybe it's affected by vendor settings?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by utucuro on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:45AM (#30356762)
Quite a few devices experience this though. For the record, I use an S9, and used to have 50+ tabs with no issues on older versions of Firefox - now I cannot have one tab remain open without a reload if I lock my phone with Firefox focused and turn unlock it a minute later. And that's with Firefox explicitly exempt from each and every kind of battery/memory etc. "optimization" by Android...

Here's the issue itself on GitHub: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by GekkePrutser on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:32PM (#30355317)
Doesn't happen for me. OnePlus 8 with Oxygen OS 11.

The one thing I really miss in FF mobile is the opposite.. Pull to refresh or another gesture that accomplishes that. The current two tap option is too slow.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by utucuro on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:41AM (#30356746)
I no longer have a need for that, my Firefox ALWAYS refreshes each and every tab whenever I look away from it for 5 seconds, so maybe it's a feature?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by dzamo_norton on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:56AM (#30382561)
Cannot reproduce. Android 9 on Nokia 8.
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