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Autorefresh on Android (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 9 months ago by Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Open any website
Switch to another app and do literally anything
Go back to Firefox
Tab reloads for ~5s and wipes all form data

Poco F3 6GB
MIUI 14.0.9
Fennec 121.1
Battery saver: No restrictions
"media.aboutwebrtc.auto_refresh" - False

I doubt ram is an issue as there is always at least 1.7GB free. This bug has been occuring or a long time. 3 years old reddit post about it

Can I fix it myself or should I wait for it to get patched? I dont know if this is appropriate place to post this, but I cant use github

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[–] critical@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

There is an event when the app is not in focus and they can save their data to avoid it being deleted or the webpage reloaded. Like a snapshot of the page.