Same version and I'm noticing a similar behavior. It's particularly annoying if you pause a youtube video. Go to a different tab for a bit, then come back, and the video reloads and plays from the beginning.

Unable to reproduce the issue on Windows 7 using chrome latest stable M49-49.0.2623.87 by following steps mentioned below.

1. Opened webpages in 10 multiple tabs of chrome including youtube
2. Once all the webpages got loaded completely switched to the other tabs
3. Observed the webpage is constant and not getting reloaded again 

Reporter@ - Are you facing this issue on incognito mode as well? Could you please recheck this by crating a new profile under chrome://settings without any apps or extensions in your browser. If issue still persists let us know approximately how many active tabs you have opened.

Thanks!

This issue went away for me when I disabled the "Automatic tab discarding" option in chrome://flags. I know my system is on the lower end of available memory, so perhaps this is related.

Maybe a fix would be a tweak to the "interesting ness" algorithm of the automatic discarder so that recently used tabs don't get closed as often...

My own issue is slightly related, if I open up some new tabs, I frequently see them getting discarded before I have the chance to visit them, which is within seconds.  And it is really annoying...FWIW.

I have friends who will open new tabs, then actually click through to them briefly, to trigger their staying in the cache...

Please some tweaks to the interestingness algorithm possible? :)

Update: appears there was a related fix so that "recently used" tabs aren't discarded [?] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=580690

kandarp.sapphire@ : Could you please update the thread which Operating system used to reproduce the issue as well please try to upgrade to latest stable 49.0.2623.112 and let us know if its still an issue.

I'm on Windows 10 Pro, and I've updated to the most recent version of Chrome. Reproducing this could be an issue because I've upgrade the available memory since this issue originally presented itself. 

Anyone still seeing this issue on the latest stable(50.0.2661.94), please update the thread.

yes. My operating system is windows 7 and i updated my chrome to Version 50.0.2661.94 m and i am still facing the same issue. 
- Step to reproduce by an example
1) Sign in to your gmail using chrome.
2) Open other tabs and do your stuff for few minutes (atleast 5-7 mins.)
3) now go to your gmail tab. It will reload again.

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Able to reproduce the issue on Windows 7 using chrome latest stable M50-50.0.2661.102 by following steps mentioned in the comment #9.

This is a non-regression issue seen from past M35-35.0.1849.0, Hence marking it as untriaged.

Thanks!

Cleaning up "Needs-Review" label as we are not using this label for triage anymore. Ref bug for this cleanup 684919

Chrome should make this a simple operation and place it in settings rather than going through all of this trouble.  The fact is that the auto refreshing rate gets stuck and keeps refreshing in windows 10 professional and uses up resources at exponential rates that it reduces the speed of the computer in general.  Refreshing should be adjustable: i.e. automatic or manual, period

This is not a feature. It's a big problem. I can't do any work on chrome. my work webpages are long and I need to review full pages. but it keeps refreshing everytime I switch. 

I agree with others, this new approach of chrome to saved user's memory is not working, refreshing tabs everytime is a poor solution, they need to come up with a better way to resolve this memory issue. And it is true that the chrome browser occupies maximum space in memory compared to any other application. I have attached the status of my task manager where the chrome browser occupies most of my system memory with 3 tabs opened. Side by side I opened the same tabs on Firefox, which is occupying much less memory than chrome.

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