Note: This is not memory pressure (I have 40GB of RAM on a 64-bit system) or tab discarding. Please read on for full details. Both flags also no longer exist and I cannot turn them off anyway. Installing an extension that disables tab discarding does not do anything (because this isn’t discarding).
When a tab fails to load (i.e. I am offline, the server is not running, some other network error), visiting that tab later causes Chrome to try to refresh it. Sometimes this will result in the same error, sometimes a different error, and sometimes the error will disappear and be replace by a working website.
Whatever the case is, I do not like having Chrome automate these actions for me. Even if a tab failed to load and is showing an error, I would not like it to be refreshed automatically even if I click on the tab.
I have checked and there do not seem to be any flags under the traditional search terms. Searching “refresh”, “auto”, “error”, and so on doesn’t reveal anything. How do I disable this auto-refresh?
