![]() ![]() tab unloading from memory behavior stopping background media streams after five minutes and reloading pages almost every time a tab or the entire app is put in the background, wiping page scroll/playback position and any entered text and thus making browsing and media streaming all but impossible).īecause of the way Fenix is packaged, certain parts of the browser depend on certain preferences being set in just the right way. ![]() The about:config page is functional in the beta and nightly releases of Firefox (Daylight/Fenix) for Android, and you could try using one of those instead, or rolling back to the final Fennec APK (I've been continuing to use Fennec as my primary browser while using the beta and nightly release channels for test use because Fenix is still far, far too bugged in ways that make my daily use cases non-fucntional e.g. ![]() I'm not entirely clear on the design details behind this (partly becaseu the dev response actually makes no sense), but the claimed reason is that a lot of the elements exposed by about:config no longer function with the new engine, or function differently than they do on the desktop version or did in Fennec (why about:config would even expose or contain unusable toggles in the first place in an application that has supposedly been entirely rebuilt is an open question), so it is disabled entirely in order to prevent normie users from completely borking their installations (again, that doesn't really make sense, since a reset to default should fix any issues caused by editing config options, and the about:config page tracks and displays which options have been changed from defaults, so that reason doesn't match reality). The Android version of Firefox Daylight (Fenix) blocks about:config on the stable/release version of the app. ![]()
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