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> Note: this is even worse if the URL was opened from an intent. In that case, Chrome can end up completely bricked because upon restart it will immediately att
by clon 5y ago
> Note: this is even worse if the URL was opened from an intent. In that case, Chrome can end up completely bricked because upon restart it will immediately attempt to re-open the URL that crashed it. I could not recover from this without having to fully "Clear Storage".
Too late for me. Not even from intent. Chrome force stop later, it still tries to load it and immediately crashes.
- Helmut10001 5y agoOff Topic: I don't get it why, after 10 years of mobile browser development, there still is no "close all tabs at end" option. Every time I visit my parents, I have to clean up their 150+ open chrome android tabs because they don't understand how to properly clean up their browsing sessions. Why on earth would I want to open the same old tabs in the morning, that I already looked at the day before?
- soco 5y agoBecause they are the tabs with your email, facebook, news, and and and.
- Helmut10001 5y agoIs it really necessary to permanently monitor these distractions? (rhetorical question)
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoThat’s what pinned tabs are for.
- Sharlin 5y agoBecause for a large number of people (including me) tabs are also bookmarks. Granted, most of them I’ll never get back to, but it’s a habit that’s difficult to break.
- croes 5y agoYep, because you can't save all open tabs as bookmarks
- Sharlin 5y agoThat’s not the point, and sarcasm is uncalled for.
- croes 5y agoThat's not sarcasm. Because this feature is missing on chrome android I only have the option to close all tabs or to manually open each tab and decide to bookmark it or not.
- Sharlin 5y agoAh, sorry. I was thinking of desktop browsers that do have the feature (but I don’t think I’ve ever used it as, well, I hardly use bookmarks).
- smichel17 5y agoI disable url bar autocompletion for history, so it's only for bookmarks and open tabs, and use my bookmarks as a way to choose which sites are easy to get to.
- Helmut10001 5y agoI think bookmarks on Desktop disappeared for a reason: They are not really useful. On Android, you can save "bookmarks" as symbol-links or install in case of PWAs. These symbols can be organized pretty good using the main Android interface. No need for a dedicated browser feature. On Desktop, if I want to memorize a blog post etc., I use tools such as ArchiveBox, which also prevents later inaccessibility. To memorize pages on Desktop, there're better features available that integrate more direcly on the OS level, e.g. similar to Android symbols.. There are also self hosted link organizers with tagging feature etc.
- mod50ack 5y agoThere are such options on Firefox. Auto close and close on quit, although annoyingly the latter now requires choosing quit from the app menu instead of just closing the app like a few years ago. There is also "close all tabs" if you just hold the tab button, as well as in the ... menu on the tab screen
- Helmut10001 5y agoYou are right. My point is that you have to take steps to close tabs, if it is just "explicitly closing Firefox". On Desktop, the browser will be terminated on shutdown. Shutdown does not apply to phones. If I want to close all tabs the second I lock my phone - no such thing. It would be enough having a "Stop all Apps&Tabs at 12am" feature. This is really why I avoid browsing things on my phone at all, or use self-hosted progressive web apps that run in dedicated tasks. Btw. - can someone explain why my initial comment is downvoted - Is it because my use case appears ignorant or unusually extravagant?
- david_allison 5y agoCan you clear the app data via adb?
- clon 5y agoCould not be bothered to try (my daily driver on Android is Firefox)