Oh man time for my little rant. Long time Firefox supporter and still use it on desktop, but I had to uninstall on Android. It reloads the tab every time I switch out and back to it. It just kills me. Especially since I pay for Kagi search, and it's nearly doubling my search count by reloadng all the damn time. So now I'm using Privacy Browser on Android, and it's great, bit I'd rather be on Firefox. There are threads asking for a fix from years ago and it's still a problem
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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I didn't know that Firefox for android will reload tab. That's why my voyager app keep reloading some images.
Anyway, for the time being, my immediate solution is to install 'Stop Auto Reload' addon (possible by using Firefox nightly custom add on collection). Still early to tell but so far it doesn't reload the images.
Thanks for the tip! I might give that a go
Yeah, I'm still putting up with Firefox here—it affected both my devices, a Nokia 7 plus with stock Android and a MIUI device with all the RAM/battery optimizations turned off for the app. I think at this point its entirely a Firefox issue.
i've been having issues with autofilling credentials from saved passwords on firefox android
This is well known problem, you need to restart the phone itself or kill the services.. I don't know why they haven't fix this yet for such long time
For me, it not only reloads every time, but it reloads from cache, meaning I have to manually reload again to get the latest version of the page I was on. And the first reload from cache is slower, not sure how that makes sense.
Definitely doesn't happen for me, that's annoying.
Weirdly I haven't had this issue much yet. I have had issued where the tab would kinda / break in sense that the tab would become useless and nothing can be done (eg. It will just show blank or some other tabs content)
Maybe try whitelisting Firefox from battery optimisation. It should help as some OEMs do aggressive background kill for apps.
Yeah I tried that but no luck. I've seen suggesions it relates to RAM management but there's no settings available for that.
Which brand is your device from? Maybe I could find something useful.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro. Ive tried disabling battery optimisation, enabling autostart. Xiaomi phones are known to be aggressive with optimising, but every Chromium based browser is fine - Chrome, Vivaldi, Brave, and what im using now which is Privacy Browser. So I do think there's sonething about Firefox in particular
Ohh. I never had this problem when I was using MIUI. IDK how it works.
I find DuckDuckGo for Android is a decent option, albeit chromium based.
I switched back to Firefox about a week ago too. Mostly because Lemmy is a whore for it.
Same for me!
Same. Only thing I miss is being able to set a predefined selection of websites to open at start. As far as I can tell, the current version only has the option to reopen tabs from last session.
Yeah. And I know this is probably bad, but I loved google's default page with news and trending links. I find it super useful and relevant.
Good. Let's all enjoy Firefox while we can, before WEI becomes mandatory for all top 500 web sites.
Good decision! :) Yay for one more user!
Welcome back!
There were points at which Firefox was difficult to stick with, especially after the extension apocalypse, but I think it's evolving pretty well at this point.
I switched back to Firefox about a year ago after wandering the wastes of Chromium land. I love it!
I still use Ungoogled Chromium for work with the same extensions that i use in Firefox.
I know firefox has profiles, but firewalling work from personal stuff in Firefox is tedious, whereas i can use Velja (or similar) to target URL patterns to particular browsers.
I'm personally using Firefox multi-account containers. It's way better than switching to profiles.
I have for example one container type for work and for specific URL i even made it so they are always opened in this containers. It's really useful as cookies are separated.
I'm coupling it with Simple Tab Groups where I can group tabs together based on criterias (For example all tabs running in my "work" container). At the beginning of my work day I switch to my "work" group and all my tabs on my window are work related and at the end I switch back to my "personal" group with my usual tabs.
It's a bit more work but lets me be completely chromium free :)
Interesting. I do that for social media apps, etc. But i also want to keep my work bookmarks isolated from my personal ones. Not sure how to do that within one profile even with containers.
welcome back.
it’s going to be a slight hassle having to copy and paste URLs from all those windows,
You might find something on the Chrome addon store that allows you copy tabs urls, similar, but not quite as good as
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-tabs/ and you can import/open them with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-tabs-from-clipboard/
Hope it helps.
What should have pushed you over the edge is that one is open source and the other isn't. You do not control what Chrome does
Not many of us control what Firefox does, either... 🤷
Signed, a long time Firefox zealot
I ditched Gmail and chrome last year after a long ride. Feels great to be back.
What did you switch to from gmail?
Migrated my own domain email to Proton.
If you'd like to see the pros/cons of different email providers, here's a link for the best privacy-friendly options :)
Welcome back!
Am I dumb or does chrome (both desktop and mobile) lack a simple way to clear all data on close? Like what the actual fuck? Both firefox and edge have an easy to find checkbox to do this...but not chrome?
welcome back. not all but most of us had moment in time when something was trigger to return back to firefox, making it the new browsing-home and enjoying it since.
Could this possibly be a solution to your shortcuts not opening in a new window? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1287367
I suspect I'll be ditching Opera on desktop/Android for FF as soon as the manifest V3 changes make it to opera and kill ad blocking. Shouldn't be long now.
They keep pushing it back so who knows if that will happen on January 1st 2024
How are the developer tools lately? That's the only thing keeping me on Chrome at work. Otherwise, I'm using Firefox on my phone and personal computer.
I prefer them over chrome's