Turn off automatic refresh/reload?

bryophyte

Just started using Vivaldi and from all I can find, it seems like this is not something Vivaldi allows. For example, if I am watching a video and pause halfway through, close my laptop, and return later, the tab always reloads and starts from 0. Or if I have an unsubmitted post or tag in a tab--the same thing, I lose my progress.

I found articles from 2 or 3 years ago about how to stop individual tabs from reloading by right-clicking the tab and selecting "never" under Periodic Refresh, but "never" is no longer there.

Is there a way to switch it off across the browser? I've seen ways to do it through discards (so if I can always remember every time I open a tab I don't want to auto-refresh...) but I'd like to just be able to turn it off entirely since it's not useful for me.

Komposten

Vivaldi (and other Chromium-based browsers) have a feature called "hibernation". Basically, in some scenarios the browser will decide to unload an inactive/unused tab to free up resources. This is not periodic reload, which is not enabled automatically for tabs any tab (as far as I know).

The only case I know of when a tab is hibernated automatically is when the browser decides that your system needs more free RAM. Laptops usually have a modest amount of RAM at best so this could definitely be the case.

(Assuming you don't mean that you turn the laptop off when you say "close my laptop", of course.)

Pesala

@bryophyte You could bookmark the video at the current time stamp.

What about sending your laptop to sleep, rather than shutting it down?

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@pesala said in Turn off automatic refresh/reload?:

You could bookmark at the current time stamp.

That assumes that the video is watched on a site/context where that's possible.

goedl

Storing positions of videos and not submitted text would only be "nice to have" for me.

But what I'm really missing is that Vivaldi still does not store the content of webpages of not active tabs. And regardless of that "hibernating" feature it always refreshes the tab when making it active.
I'm still using old Opera for a certain set of webpages which I need to look at before refreshing to see if the content has changed since the last time I looked at it.

It seems for the very tab which was active when closing Vivaldi I get the previous content when reopening Vivaldi. So (at least if this is an intented behaviour of the developers) I'm still hoping this behaviour once will spill over also to all other tabs.