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How do I stop Firefox from reloading tabs I revisit?

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kakyote
kakyote
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I have tried everything. I have visited multiple websites looking for answers. Disabled all of my add-ons, played with about:config, tried ending task, disabling and re-enabling Firefox with the help of task manager, and it still hasn't stopped. Every time I return to another tab, the tab reloads. I've been having this problem for at least three days now.

I have tried everything. I have visited multiple websites looking for answers. Disabled all of my add-ons, played with about:config, tried ending task, disabling and re-enabling Firefox with the help of task manager, and it still hasn't stopped. Every time I return to another tab, the tab reloads. I've been having this problem for at least three days now.

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McCoy
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Hello kakyote,

This sounds like one of the new features that came with the update to Firefox 67.0 :

See under "New" - suspending unused tabs

And also :

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/21/latest-firefox-release-is-faster-than-ever/

If you want to disable this feature :

Type in the address bar about:config and press Enter (promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory

and set its value to false

Then close and restart Firefox.