screen touch causes unintended page refresh
Every so often (about 5 times a day?) when I tap the screen, Firefox initiates a page refresh as if I've swiped down from the top of the page. The refresh icon appears fully pulled down, and if I catch it before I release my finger, I can swipe back up to cancel the refresh. It seems to happen on some sites more than others, but I can't find a pattern or reproduce it reliably (maybe it happens more on sites that don't scroll down so the page is always at the top?). I managed to catch a video of it happening, but I don't see a place to upload it.
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Hi Will
I think that what you are experiencing may be linked to this issue that our developers are looking into:
Hi Paul, I think what Will is describing might be unrelated to the issue that you linked. You linked to a bug about tabs refreshing when you switch to them.
The issue that Will and I are both experiencing is without tab switches. It's the browser triggering a refresh through the pull-down gesture, but we didn't perform the gesture. A tap is misinterpreted as a pull-down gesture.
It often happens when i click a link to navigate to a new page, then that new page loads, and then i try to press something on that new page (e.g. expand a dropdown) which should not cause a page load. The refresh icon then appears during this second tap and the page refreshes. The icon appears as soon as the finger touches the screen. This means that if you notice it before releasing your finger off the screen, you can move your finger to the top of the window to prevent the refresh. The interaction with whatever button I wanted to press is not registered ether way.
I'm experiencing this issue on a Sony Xperia 1 II with Android 12
I'm having a similar issue. It's especially annoying on webpages where I'm trying to view a video and tap outside of the video box to make the control overlay disappear so I can, you know, actually see the video - only for the page to refresh and start the whole process over again.
It seems to happen when scrolling, too; sometimes the app reads a scroll as a refresh.
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