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Keeping tabs without refresh in Android? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by kratoz29@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 4 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)

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 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.

[–] jayknight@lemmy.ml 4 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.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 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.

[–] jayknight@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Settings -> Customize.

I actually disabled it, but it does work.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 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.

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 3 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

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

Gonna test it out.