sometimes I get logged out of all
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RE: sometimes I get logged out of all - Added by Soren Stoutner 7 months ago
What I am referring to is if the Android OS runs the `onStop` command because it decides that Privacy Browser has been running in the background too long or because some other app needs the RAM.
Refer to the attached image with a simplified version of the Android Activity Lifecycle.
When that happens (which is quite frequent), then Android will call `onCreate`, then `onStart`, and then `onResume` the next time Privacy Browser is brought to the focus. When Privacy Browser is killed in the background by the OS, it stores a copy of each WebViews state in the saved instance state bundle.
https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/saving-states
When it is restarted, it restores those states, which involved reloading the URL. You can tell that this is happening because the filter lists must also be reloaded, which causes the blue Privacy Shield to briefly display on the screen before you see any of the other interface elements.
The key to understanding why this might be a problem for you is to remember that currently, due to limitations in Android's system WebView, cookies is an app-wide settings, not a tab setting. This is explained with some details in the Guide inside the app under the section for Local Storage, but the summary is that if you are on a tab where cookies are enabled they are enabled for all the other tabs that might make a network request in the background. And, if you are on a tab where cookies are disabled, they are disabled for all the other tabs that might make a network request in the background. When switching tabs, the cookie status for the foreground tab is applied to the entire app.
My guess as to what is happening is that when Privacy Browser is restarting, if you are on a tab where cookies are disabled, all the other tabs load in the background with cookies disabled. But when you switch to them and cookies are enabled, you can refresh them and any login cookies are then sent to that tab.
This is a cookie limitation that will be removed in with Privacy WebView in the 4.x series with Feature #409: Enable/disable first-party cookies by WebView.
