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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Apr 2017
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Since the latest update, tabs refresh whenever I leave them and then return. This takes ages, and is unnecessary and very annoying.

Reported by glazedl...@gmail.com, Apr 6 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 9202.60.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.137 Safari/537.36
Platform: 9202.60.0 (Official Build) stable-channel edgar

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Load up a bunch of tabs
2. Wait a couple of minutes
3. Switch back to an earlier tab

What is the expected behavior?
What used to happen until the update a couple of days ago was, the tabs would be how I left them.

What went wrong?
Now, Chrome takes it upon itself the refresh the tab as if I had just newly-opened it. When it's a spreadsheet with hundreds of lines, this is a pointless waste of a Chromebook's processing power - and my time.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 57.0.2987.137  Channel: stable
OS Version: 9202.60.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 25.0 r0

My Chromebook has its own 'Refresh' button on the keyboard, and Chrome also has a prominent software 'Refresh' button. So, why would I want it to refresh everything automatically, just for the hell of it, when I know nothing has changed?
 
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
I believe this is working as expected. If there are a large number of tabs open, then we will stop processes on some tabs and need to refresh when you navigate back.
I have had this Chromebook for 6 months, and there was never a problem until this week. I can only assume that the latest version of Chrome uses so much memory on its own that there's nothing left for more than a couple of tabs. I had hoped that a brand new Chromebook might last a bit longer than this, before being rendered useless by updates. Anyway, thanks for explaining. 

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