Hey fediverse--

I recently made the switch from desktop Chrome to desktop #Firefox, which has mostly been fine, except for one problem:

Firefox stops bothering to answer AJAX requests in tabs pretty quickly, which makes my preferred webmail client--#Roundcube--FAR less functional under FF than it was under Chrome.

If left alone for a moment--or sometimes, even while typing an email--FF stops paying attention, further AJAX calls fail, and I'm forced to refresh the tab.

Anybody have any ideas?

belated note: I'm running Firefox on Ubuntu 26.04, using the default snap. (Pic related.)

I don't think the problem is localized there, though, because when I went a-web-searchin' I saw MANY similar complaints about Ajax and FF dating back nearly 20 years.

@jimsalter

Maybe use a tab suspender extension and whitelist that site?

@jimsalter

If that doesn't work, try setting browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory to false.

...in "about:config"

@rl_dane boy howdy, that would be some STUPID "optimization" if that's the issue...

Not that I haven't seen VERY stupid memory-related "optimizations" over and over and OVER again on nearly all platforms.

me@elden:~$ free -m
total used free
Mem: 62790 8174 50376

@jimsalter @rl_dane that's a real flex these days...