Inb4 I know I have an old phone with low storage and old Android 9 and a slightly outdated Fenix fork (IceRaven/Fenix 112) with a bunch of extensions and the problem could be in any of these. Just wanna know if it’s definitely on my end or maybe not. Because I never have this kind of problems with any other web site.
Anyway. I tend to use permanent Private mode apart from a couple PWAs, including some Lemmy instances. My “home” lemmy.world with 0.17.4 works well enough.
But I just realized that when using instances on 0.18 like lemmy.ml or lemmynsfw, minimizing the PWA (going to phone home screen) crashes the entire browser, including any other windows.
So, is it just me?
For comparison, I tried it on Bromite (yes I know it’s not developed anymore): using the add home shortcut for 0.17.4 lemmy.world just indeed adds a browser shortcut. With 0.18 instances, the shortcuts make Bromite act like proper PWAs without the address bar etc. But not crashing.
Using Android 13 with Mull (Firefox fork) connected to my home instance on 0.18.0 and the PWA seems to be working as expected. Did have one crash notification yesterday I believe, but the PWA seems to be unloading from ram just about every time I switched apps anyway; which is very common on my phone.
Well isn’t that the problem? E.g. if I’m writing a comment and switch to another app, it disappears completely?
I also thought the pwa just “disappears”, but as I was trying it a bunch of times, I got a “IcaRaven keeps crashing”, so it’s actually a crash then.
Also it closes all the other browser windows I have opened at the time. Of it’s doing the same for you, that’s a sign of a crash.
It’s a problem with my OS since it does it with just about every app I use. Blame Oneplus and their shitty ram management.