This is the expected behaviour: when the system is running out of memory (currently less than 30% available memory), the browser will start unloading background tabs to free up some memory, thus hopefully avoiding the entire application being taken down. Those tabs, when focused again, need to be reloaded. Note that the data is cached, so depending on server parameters, this might not imply data consumption (for highly dynamic webapps it almost certainly will though).
** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571276 Title: tab reload when move between tabs Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When you move between tabs of the web-browser the tabs are reloaded. Not sure why it works this way (maybe for the memory) but sometimes is very annoying also it makes more consumption of data when you are connected through your sim and not through wifi. BQ E4.5 ubuntu edition. OTA 10.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1571276/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp