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Chrome keeps refreshing my tabs. any idea why

by paulpauper·10y ago·3 comments·view on hn ↗

Not sure where else to ask this

Over the past 2 days I've noticed a very annoying problem: Chrome keeps refreshing idle tabs whenever I click them. This is extremely annoying because I sometimes have form data on these tabs which then gets reset when the page refreshes. Why is this happening? Any way to fix this problem? restarting Chrome and computer does not help.

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This might be to save memory. Tabs you don't use are freed, and reloaded when you open them again. Take a look at Chrome's task manager, it shows the memory consumption for each process.

I suspect it's a memory problem, but I just noticed this about 2 days ago and is there a way to make chrome not do this? I like having many tabs open

Get more memory?

Safari on iOS does this, too. If memory gets low, inactive tabs get flushed, then reloaded if you switch back to them.