Any way to prevent Vivaldi from unloading tabs?
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After buying a new phone having Android 13 (later upgraded to 14), I'm experiencing that Vivaldi will "unload" the current tab (that is, it replaces the page with a "preview") whenever I use some other app for a time, forcing a reload of the page, with all sorts of unwanted consequences. And sometimes, just switching to another tab briefly will provoke the unloading of the first tab.
I take it this has to do with my phone not having more than 4 GB of RAM, but so did my old phone, and then I would only have this problem when I activated the camera.
Is this a known "feature" of later Android versions, or is it just me or my phone (Moto G54)? Is there any way to change this behavior?
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Am I the only one having an issue with this? I just now lost the first version of this post, when I started another app to get a view of the amount of RAM used by different apps and Android itself; it said that out of 4GB, Vivaldi has used a maximum of 568 (average 168) MB, and Android some 1.4 GB.
This behavior makes me want to go back to Android 10.
Would having more RAM have helped?
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@morbrorper You're absolutely not the only one. This behavior has made doing some things like filing out forms a real pain. If you don't have all the info memorized, your pretty much guaranteed to being required to having to do it all over again.
By now, I'm switching over to another browser for tasks like this.
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@Athrul
Hi, which other browser is this?
@morbrorper said in Any way to prevent Vivaldi from unloading tabs?:I use some other app for a time
How long do you switch?
How many tabs you have open?
I tried to reproduce with the forum open and the switch to the YouTube app for 4-5 minutes and the tab in not unloaded.
I saw is one time with the Google page but no idea how to reproduce.
We need exact steps how to reproduce if you want to make a bug report.Cheers, mib
Opensuse Tumbleweed x86_64 KDE 6.2 X11, Windows 11 Pro, Vivaldi latest
HP Probook Intel(R) i5-8350U 16 GB, GPU UHD 620, SSD 256 GB
Miniforum-B550 AMD Ryzen 7 4700G 16 GB, Radeon Graphics
Redmi Note 14, HyperOS Android 14 -
@mib2berlin It's Chrome, unfortunately.
Personally, I have a lot of tabs open. In mobile, I find bookmarks to be not optimal and tend to use tab groups instead. So it should be 100 or sometimes more, of which I'm actively using only a handful.
If I'm typing stuff into a form and then open a file to look up information for 30 seconds, this is often enough for the page to switch into preview mode. I even have an app that saves inputs into cache to help me recover text, but I find this highly problematic since that probably also saves sensitive information.
Again, it's the same situation on Chrome and there this doesn't become a problem.
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@Athrul
OK, meant you have 100+ tabs open in Chrome, too?
Please, can you post a link to such a form page, I rarely have to do this, maybe a few times a Year.
I will test this later today.Cheers, mib
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We need exact steps how to reproduce if you want to make a bug report.
Sorry, I can't give you any exact steps to follow, other than having a number of apps open, and having more than a few browser pages open (I rarely have more than six). Then you can open some heavy-weight web page in a new Vivaldi tab, and you should see some of your other tabs be unloaded.
I see that you're on Android 12, and maybe this problem isn't as prominent on this version. Also, I don't see how much RAM you have; if you have more than 4 you probably won't see it as frequently.
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@morbrorper
Hi, the update of Android 12,13 to 14 change a lot for many users.
I have 6 GB, I guess I should add this to my signature, sorry.
In my tests for other issues I had 100+ tabs open and didn`t notice it.
I will ask in the developer chat if this is a Android 14 feature.EDIT: Are these pages maybe AMP pages?
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Any way to prevent Vivaldi from unloading tabs?:
Are these pages maybe AMP pages?
They seem to be plain HTML, with a lot of JavaScript.
Also, I noticed the problem already on Android 13.
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@morbrorper
Hi, another tester reply in the developer chat it depends on how you close Vivaldi or change to other apps.
If you change back from another app after some time it shows these Preview pages.
I cant reproduce this either but can you reproduce it?
He meant this is a Chromium thing, also happen on an Android 10 device.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin I actually never close Vivaldi; I have it locked in the task switcher.
Re Android 10, I did experience the issue, but exclusively when I activated the camera app.
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@morbrorper
OK, then it is really the Chromium feature to save memory.
I can remember now I saw this once and the page was marked as Preview or something in the address bar, is this so? -
@mib2berlin said in Any way to prevent Vivaldi from unloading tabs?:
the page was marked as Preview or something in the address bar, is this so?
Yes.
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I'm attaching a couple of screen dumps from the Device Info app:
