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by bombcar 317 days ago
The modern webbroswer trick of "you haven't looked at this tab in an hour, so we killed/unloaded it" is infuriating.
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To be fair... Lots of people just never close their tabs. So there's very real resource limitations. I've seen my partner's phone with a few hundred tabs open.
I would like this feature if I had more control over it. The worst part is when clicking a tab that was unloaded which makes a new (fresh) web request when I don't want it to
In firefox it's possible to disable it: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/tabunloader/ . Enabled is probably the reasonable default for it though.
Particularly if you have maybe 40 tabs open and 128GB of ram.