I wrote a blog post about why Android likes to close tabs for you if you have too many open.
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I wrote a blog post about why Android likes to close tabs for you if you have too many open.
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in reply to Soren Stoutner • •@Soren Stoutner
... show moreSo I have experience in using slow mobile devices and usually in other firefox or chromium based browsers if I put that app in the background to check something else and quickly come back to it then the webpages and everything has to reload - this takes some time and is generally a bad user experience. But this issue doesn't happen in privacy browser and the webpages are still there when I come back after looking something else, unless I put it on background for a bit too long but even then the loading time of privacy browser is blazingly fast compared to other browsers on my device. I'm guessing this is because privacy browser is very lightweight and simple compared to other browsers, so it may not take much RAM and boots up quickly, some other factors like JS being disabled on websites might also play a role by making sites load faster. Or maybe you've just done a good job at making the app resilient to being killed, either way this is an area th
@Soren Stoutner
So I have experience in using slow mobile devices and usually in other firefox or chromium based browsers if I put that app in the background to check something else and quickly come back to it then the webpages and everything has to reload - this takes some time and is generally a bad user experience. But this issue doesn't happen in privacy browser and the webpages are still there when I come back after looking something else, unless I put it on background for a bit too long but even then the loading time of privacy browser is blazingly fast compared to other browsers on my device. I'm guessing this is because privacy browser is very lightweight and simple compared to other browsers, so it may not take much RAM and boots up quickly, some other factors like JS being disabled on websites might also play a role by making sites load faster. Or maybe you've just done a good job at making the app resilient to being killed, either way this is an area that I think privacy browser excels in compared to other browsers. The privacy aspects of this browser is for sure great, but for me the simple & lightweight nature of it is equally important - that's what makes it exceptionally fast.
P.S. I usually don't open more than ten tabs so the issue mentioned in the above post doesn't affect me, but I'm still kinda mad at android for randomly killing apps and then setting such a small limit of 1 mb for the SavedInstanceState.
Soren Stoutner
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