PREVENT CHROME FROM REFRESHING YOUR TABS WHEN SWITCHING BACK TO THEM

A LIFESAVER FOR THE TAB-HOARDERS AMONGST US.

It’s an automatically-enabled feature of the Chrome browser to reload a tab when you switch back to it after a while, the reason being that the clever browser wants to save you some RAM when a tab is inactive for a while. This can be a pain for people that just want to flip between their millions of tabs for rapid reference, or that otherwise have enough RAM to spare that it never bogs down their computer. In order to disable this, open a Chrome browser window and enter chrome://flags/#automatictab-discarding in the URL bar. From this screen, click the drop-down under Automatic Tab Discarding and select ‘Disabled’ before restarting your browser.