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Autorefresh on Android (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago by Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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  1. Open any website
  2. Switch to another app and do literally anything
  3. Go back to Firefox
  4. 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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[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Firefox for Android straight up sucks. Sorry but it's true. It's heavy and slow with a bad ui. It basically has one and only one benefit. Add-ons. That's it. It's even worse on tablets. It's basically the same app but bigger. I bet Android users make up most of Firefox mobile users but they can't make a proper app.

[–] jackcole@mstdn.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@Drinvictus @Aopen #Firefox on iOS is great, but Apple limits extensions that you can use on MacOS

[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hey it's my first time interacting with a mastodon user on Lemmy. Wonders of the fediverse. If you live in the EU it's about to get better because they won't be held back by webkit anymore. Unfortunately only in the EU. So now they'll have to make two apps for iOS.

Edit: I forgot to add. Every web browser on iOS is basically just a skin on top of webkit because Apple doesn't allow it.