Firefox is not staying in the background, not even for a minute. When I am just minimizing and returning to Firefox, it just reloads every tab, including the private tab. Any solution for this?

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    232·
    8 months ago

    Android? Go into the system app settings and make sure any sort of battery optimization is turned off.

        • vintprox@kbin.melroy.org
          2·
          8 months ago

          Haha, well… It’s a Samsung Galaxy from Android 10 era and, apparently, it has terrible Settings. Whenever I try to say “Don’t optimize” on any app, it changes the label, but only for a brief moment, which effectively does not turn off any optimization.

  • sylverstream
    92·
    8 months ago

    I’ve the same thing. This is a very old issue and it’s still not resolved. It seems Android prefers Chromium based browsers as it doesn’t happen there. I tried everything, nothing helped. So had to revert to Brave.

      • mountainCalledMonkey@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        strange, i started having this same issue on brave about 3 months ago. i installed firefox and am not having this problem. no battery / background restrictions set for either

      • sylverstream
        42·
        8 months ago

        Apparently something about the CEO. With Firefox not working properly and no support for adblockers on Chrome I don’t see any other alternative.

  • neoinvin@lemm.ee
    81·
    8 months ago

    It could be that you have too many other apps in the background, and Android is essentially freeing up memory for other processes. If you have too many tabs open this could also occur. You could also have your battery saving options too aggressive, which also clears data from background apps. I’d look up something like “how to keep Android from stopping apps in the background” or something similar.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    This happens to me too, no matter how much free RAM I have, disabled battery optimizations, etc…

    Only Firefox does it, other browsers are fine.