> On mobile it doesn't happen, and we can thank Android for that, as they insisted from day one that multi-tasking APIs should not require the user to manually

> On mobile it doesn't happen, and we can thank Android for that, as they insisted from day one that multi-tasking APIs should not require the user to manually manage memory on the device. Yes, and this turns my phone into an amnesiac the moment I have a hundred tabs and fifteen apps open. Switch to a different app, switch back... Oops, all gone! Enjoy recreating the state from history manually, if that's even possible. There are no words to express how unhappy this makes me. We've got gigabytes of memory on our handhelds these days, why can't the phone just deal with it?