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I'm trying out the Tor browser on Android 9.0 (device is not rooted). When I open a page and change tabs before the new page is fully loaded, the loading process is interrupted and cannot be resumed. Changing back to the "inactivated" tab and reloading does not work, the tab has to be closed and the page needs to be loaded from a new tab.

As usual, the Tor browser comes bundled with NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere, I'm also using the uBlock Origin extension (any opinion on this?). Background data is disabled for all apps except messengers and the max. number of background processes (developer options) is set to zero. I have tried changing the security settings as well as disabling uBO, but the problem persists... Now that I think of it, I encountered the same issue using the Brave browser on Android.

Can anyone reproduce this behaviour and tell me what's causing it? This is extremely annoying, as using Tor increases loading time with some pages, I therefore want to be able to switch to a different tab while waiting.

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  • I have been using it occasionally on Android 10 but never faced this. Wonder if this due to internet connection?
    – beeshyams
    Mar 6, 2020 at 15:46
  • Good question, haven't tried this on WLAN yet. But I suspect some underlying Android issue, as I encountered this behaviour with two different browsers on two completely different devices (Brave vs. Tor, Android 4.2 vs. 9.0) as well as two different mobile carriers/contracts
    – david
    Mar 6, 2020 at 16:06
  • I have and had Brave too on 9 but never faced this
    – beeshyams
    Mar 6, 2020 at 16:09
  • Do browser tabs in Android require background data in order to stay active?
    – david
    Mar 10, 2020 at 17:38
  • Depends on what's on the tab - ads, scripts need more data. I would say, yes they do. Chrome restricts content refresh of background data and save power
    – beeshyams
    Mar 10, 2020 at 21:13

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