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BLOCKING Auto Refresh is Impossible?

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I've just about given up using this browser as it's become less and less user friendly. I have spent a couple of hours searching the forums and online to find a way to BLOCK webpages from refreshing/reloading in Firefox for Android. Facebook etc.. I've searched geckoview and there is NO option for blocking this feature. the accessibility.blockautorefresh no longer exists and re-entering it does nothing. I've disabled every option possible and it doesn't do it. Battery consumption etc. There are no current extensions add-ons that work. I assume this was done to make the browser more favorable for site monetization but Firefox wasn't supposed to be geared towards that.

If anyone knows of a way to do this please please let me know. Otherwise I'm -><- away from deleting this app and just using Brave.

I've just about given up using this browser as it's become less and less user friendly. I have spent a couple of hours searching the forums and online to find a way to BLOCK webpages from refreshing/reloading in Firefox for Android. Facebook etc.. I've searched geckoview and there is NO option for blocking this feature. the accessibility.blockautorefresh no longer exists and re-entering it does nothing. I've disabled every option possible and it doesn't do it. Battery consumption etc. There are no current extensions add-ons that work. I assume this was done to make the browser more favorable for site monetization but Firefox wasn't supposed to be geared towards that. If anyone knows of a way to do this please please let me know. Otherwise I'm -><- away from deleting this app and just using Brave.

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I switched to Brave. Works flawlessly. RIP FF, I'll miss you.

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Hi

This is something that our developers are aware of and are looking into. You can follow progress on this work at:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1752594

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I'm not using Fenix, Night, or any of the other builds. This isn't when tabbing, it occurs even within the same tab while on a website like Facebook. It continually refreshes content real time

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It's not auto refresh, it looks like a memory issue. So blocking auto refresh wouldn't help you. Try to close some unnecessary apps.

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I switched to Brave. Works flawlessly. RIP FF, I'll miss you.

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Thank you for your feedback.

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