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On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app (see: bloatware). That means you can't clear its app data nor uninstall it, effectively bricking Chrome permanently. The only thing you can do is uninstall the updates, which force resets its persistence, losing all of your stored data/sessions. If you've already done that... tough luck, I guess? What an awful bug.
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Because for a large number of people (including me) tabs are also bookmarks. Granted, most of them I’ll never get back to, but it’s a habit that’s difficult to break.
Yep, because you can't save all open tabs as bookmarks
On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app (see: bloatware). That means you can't clear its app data nor uninstall it, effectively bricking Chrome permanently. The only thing you can do is uninstall the updates, which force resets its persistence, losing all of your stored data/sessions. If you've already done that... tough luck, I guess? What an awful bug.
Tangential... does that smell like built in spying tweaks to anyone else? Edit - quick googling says Xiaomi have their own browser as default / system, is that what you're referring to?
Edit: source (in Dutch): https://www.security.nl/posting/721810/Litouwse+overheid%3A+... Source in Lithuanian: https://kam.lt/lt/naujienos_874/aktualijos_875/ka_daro_isman...
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Yep, because you can't save all open tabs as bookmarks
That’s not the point, and sarcasm is uncalled for.
On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app (see: bloatware). That means you can't clear its app data nor uninstall it, effectively bricking Chrome permanently. The only thing you can do is uninstall the updates, which force resets its persistence, losing all of your stored data/sessions. If you've already done that... tough luck, I guess? What an awful bug.
That's wrong. You can clear both cache and data of a system app on a typical Android device. You just can't uninstall it. The base .apk is stored on a read-only system partition, so you can't completely get rid of it, but typically you should be able to remove all data of that app, clear its cache, uninstall any updates it downloaded (since those are stored on another partition), and also disable it. I haven't used a…
However, sure enough, tab instances persist even across killing the app and then force stopping it.
You’re telling me Chrome does not have that feature where after a few failed attempts, the browser offers you to not open the websites from the previous session? Firefox has that.
> Chrome freezes and/or crashes. Note: this is even worse if the URL was opened from an intent. In that case, Chrome can end up completely bricked because upon restart it will immediately attempt to re-open the URL that crashed it. I could not recover from this without having to fully "Clear Storage". You’re telling me Chrome does not have that feature where after a few failed attempts, the browser offers you to not…
Squeaky wheels getting grease, and such.