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.

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You mean you want to avoid FF flushing your tabs?

    Um, I don’t know if stock FF has that, but in IceRaven there’s an option for the exact opposite - to flush the content of tabs so that when the browser is minimised, Android is less likely to kill it outright. I assume it’s just some config option being exposed as a menu item.

    But note the meaning of the feature - if your tabs stay active, they take up resources and so it’s more likely Android will kill the entire browser process.

    IR also has pull to refresh btw, as do other forks.