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A chrome extension for suspending all tabs to free up memory
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg/
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Bug: Google Drive Offline - offline/unsynced data is not preserved #920

Open fourquarts opened 5 years ago

fourquarts commented 5 years ago

If the user has enabled Google Drive Offline, chooses to edit a Google Docs file (for example) while offline, and then TGS suspends the page, the edits that have occurred while the user was offline (those not synced to Google's servers) are not preserved when the page is unsuspended.

I found this out by losing a hard-won paragraph. : /

deanoemcke commented 5 years ago

This is a tricky one. In one respect this is a bug. Assuming you have 'never suspend tabs that are receiving form input' then it should not have auto-suspended. On the other hand, there have been people requesting that websites that generally auto-save such as google docs should ignore this setting, as they handle their own saving and can safely be suspended. See this issue

You situation is an edge-case where you're on an auto-saving website but offline. I guess the 'never suspend tabs when offline' option might help you here?