Inb4 I know I have an old phone with low storage and old Android 9 and a slightly outdated Fenix fork (IceRaven/Fenix 112) with a bunch of extensions and the problem could be in any of these. Just wanna know if it’s definitely on my end or maybe not. Because I never have this kind of problems with any other web site.

Anyway. I tend to use permanent Private mode apart from a couple PWAs, including some Lemmy instances. My “home” lemmy.world with 0.17.4 works well enough.

But I just realized that when using instances on 0.18 like lemmy.ml or lemmynsfw, minimizing the PWA (going to phone home screen) crashes the entire browser, including any other windows.

So, is it just me?

For comparison, I tried it on Bromite (yes I know it’s not developed anymore): using the add home shortcut for 0.17.4 lemmy.world just indeed adds a browser shortcut. With 0.18 instances, the shortcuts make Bromite act like proper PWAs without the address bar etc. But not crashing.

  • @WhoRogerOP
    2•2 years ago

    but the PWA seems to be unloading from ram just about every time I switched apps anyway

    Well isn’t that the problem? E.g. if I’m writing a comment and switch to another app, it disappears completely?

    I also thought the pwa just “disappears”, but as I was trying it a bunch of times, I got a “IcaRaven keeps crashing”, so it’s actually a crash then.

    Also it closes all the other browser windows I have opened at the time. Of it’s doing the same for you, that’s a sign of a crash.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      Well isn’t that the problem?

      It’s a problem with my OS since it does it with just about every app I use. Blame Oneplus and their shitty ram management.

      • @WhoRogerOP
        1•2 years ago

        So does it happen with regular Mull when you have a regular web page opened?

        Btw I don’t know if it changes anything, but IceRaven has a feature to auto-unload pages from RAM so that the OS doesn’t need to kill it when minimized. While my phone is already not aggressive about closing apps, IR can easily stay in the background the whole night while some other apps get closed. Maybe give it a try.

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 years ago

          So does it happen with regular Mull when you have a regular web page opened?

          Yes, it will still get killed when changing apps annoyingly often.

          I’m pretty certain Mull does the same. Pages that haven’t been exited but have sat unused are unloaded from ram, but on my phone the latest page will still get killed frequently. The issue is so prevalent that it’s widely complained about example. Oneplus has a history of aggressively killing background apps.