1807554 - Consider persisting private tabs through memory eviction / force quit

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Privacy, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

From github: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5386.

We should consider persisting private tabs even when users force quit the app or it is evicted from memory. Currently private tabs are all lost when the OS decided to kill our app which can happen frequently especially on older phones.

We currently match the behavior of Focus so CHANGING it would be against how Focus operates..

I think it's reasonable to think about this especially if we are implementing #4780 since it won't expose user data by default when opening the app, but definitely up for discussion.

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Comment 1

[:Gela]

I agree with this. Unless the user has enabled "Delete browsing data on quit", we should be persisting their tabs.

Comment 3

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

Yes, this seems like the right behaviour. Presumably it matches what Chrome does on Android as well?

Comment 4

[twhite]

I agree with this. Unless the user has enabled "Delete browsing data on quit", we should be persisting their tabs.
Agreed.

Presumably it matches what Chrome does on Android as well?
Chrome also closes all private tabs, but I don't think should be a reason to discount this idea.