Mastodawn

Cranky again about how Android randomly reserves the right to kill applications for power management or its own inscrutable reasons, even if you have power management settings for the app set to "unrestricted".

So every time I open firefox it's a 50/50 shot whether my incognito tabs from my last browsing session (my default browsing mode to minimize leaving residue in history etc) are there or not.

On a desktop OS, apps randomly being terminated for no reason would be a sev1 issue. On mobile, it's just expected.

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Sam Pastva

@azonenberg Don't want to be the random internet reply guy, but just in case it is helpful in any way... this could definitely be a RAM issue as well, not just power management. Android generally does not swap to disk, so if the incognito tabs are RAM heavy, or there is some other RAM heavy app in the foreground, it could result in Firefox being killed purely on that basis.

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Andrew Zonenberg 7h ago

@daemontus well android goes out of its way to make ram usage hard to find so i have no idea how much i am actually using :p

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Andrew Zonenberg 7h ago

@daemontus it's not foreground apps for sure, e.g. i very commonly have a tab open, go to bed, wake up, and it's gone. i cant imagine the alarm clock notification uses much ram