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Keeping tabs without refresh in Android? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Firefox Beta for Android has pull to refresh that works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? Does it need to be activated? I tried it and it didn't work a few days ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Settings -> Customize .

I actually disabled it, but it does work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

lol, definitely overlooked it then, thanks for the heads up!

Although I'm struggling to see the differences in all these FF clients.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See this bug that's been open for very long. At the bottom someone has a solution that may work. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807364

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Actually this helped me to probably find where I even read about this bug lol.

Gonna test it out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cannot reply to your question but there are more firefox versions and forks that support pull to refresh:

Mull (If your device screen supports more than 60Hz this one may feel choppy, because Firefox's Resist Fingerprinting setting limits the refresh rate to 60Hz since v102)
Fennec
Firefox beta (Available on GPlay)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the heads up, I didn't see this when I tried FF beta, maybe I need to look again lol.

But honestly what is the difference between beta and nightly? Is nightly unstable for daily basis? Because I haven't found any bugs in the wild.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you implying your tabs don't refresh with Brave?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes yes I have exactly the same problem. Super annoying!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah got a Redmi Note 10 Pro. Brave and Chrome are fine indeed.