That’s most likely because the behaviour of the mechanism to unload background tabs when running low on memory has recently been tweaked (see bug #1576639).
-- 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/1542002 Title: [browser] opening multiple tabs causing major system slowdown or crash Status in The Avila project: New Status in Canonical Pocket Desktop: New Status in webapps-sprint: Incomplete Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: the default browser constantly seems to crash when set up as pocket desktop. For example when viewing this page: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/bq-aquaris-m10-ubuntu-edition-tablet-news Also when using google docs, and even launch pad. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/avila/+bug/1542002/+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