How to prevent auto reloading of pages

SamuelEdison

Whenever I switch tabs and come back to a one having a already opened webpage it reloads it. Is there a way to prevent this.

hung11

I think this is auto sleep tabs when you are not focus on it for a while.
This is to reduce ram usage ?

HaaEnn

This is irritating me as well. The tabs should stay put and do whatever it needs to independently of which tabs I am looking at, at the moment. If I got a webcam in one tab it reloads every time I am changing to that tab. This should not be necessary.

greenenemy

vivaldi://flags#automatic-tab-discarding try disabling this.

Cesc

@greenenemy:

vivaldi://flags#automatic-tab-discarding

Thanks, I'm gonna try this. This should be an option in settings.

zori

Tried to stop the reloading already opened tabs, but the automatic-tab-discarding flag is not present in Ubuntu 14.04

Robert81

I'm waiting for disable auto-reload feature too. Auto-reload feature is annoying and it seems it does not have any effect for memory usage (which is quite high). I am curious why this browser needs it at all.

mallen

Another +1 on this.

This gets really frustrating on an older slower PC. Ever since using Opera 3.xx on a 33kbps modem back in the previous century I have always used the middle mouse button to "Open page in background". With Vivaldi it is next to impossible to do this due to this constant need to reload pages. At least display what you already have before going to get it yet again.

Example case. Reading a page full of news headlines I will scroll down the page using "Open page in background" on links of interest. I'll open a dozen pages this way. BUT when I try and read any of them…. I now have to sit and wait for it to reload. Which kind of defeats the point of "load in background".

The flag vivaldi://flags#automatic-tab-discarding does not work for me. In my case it is already disabled, but pages still reload all the time.

toroned

Almost 4 years later after opening of this thread and still not fixed or option added to deactivate this...
Seems like devs don't even care about bugreports or suggestions.
In that case, I can go back to Opera. Vivaldi is crashing/freezing anyway.

mib2berlin

@toroned
Hi, my tabs never reload after switching, do you have lazy loading enabled?
Vivaldi crash once a month or even less on my 5 systems with Linux/Windows.
Please report the crash or it never gets noticed, developer don´t read forum.

Cheers, mib

biggly

I'm still facing this problem in March 2020.

The vivaldi://flags#automatic-tab-discarding doesn't work, no such option in the current version of the browser.

Is there any way to disable this yet, or do I need to switch browsers again?

Pesala

@biggly I am not seeing the behaviour at all. Perhaps some script on the web page is reloading it?

Does it happen for you on all pages?

biggly

Yes, all pages. I only need a few tabs open and it does this.

I've been trying to switch from Opera but this is making me return to it.

vickychow

yes, i have the same problem, it is very annoying when the webpage automatically reload.
Is there any way to stop this function?

bebli

Have you tried disabling "Lazy load restored tabs" under "Tools -> Settings -> General -> Startup with -> Startup"?

legobuilder26

I find info about this at vivaldi://discards
Vivaldi treats it as a hibernated tab and dims the icon

goedl

We got now Periodic Reload. Thanks for that.
I hope the opposite as described here will also get some love.

So to reiterate my wish:
Whenever I'm re-opening a tab I want to see the content of that webpage exactly in that state it was when I left the tab the last time regardless if the server made any updates to this page and even if the URL does not exist anymore. Only a manual reload should update the content.
This should work also across browser restarts.

This should certainly being just an option and while prefering it being then the default state of every tab it would be somehow OK for me if I need to set it manually on tabs.

Seems I only commented previously in threads and partly relevant feature requests so I will post a new feature request.

mviva

I'm trying turning off "Background sync" on Site Settings > Privacy and security > Background sync

No idea if it'll do what we want.

BTW my post on this problem: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/57786/how-to-stop-page-reload-on-clicking-like-previous-versions/

legobuilder26

At vivaldi://discards you can disable it for individual sites. Or you can install an extension to do all of them automatically