@leocg Is there any workaround? Or can you develop any?
I mean, that is a plain idiocy, to simply unload a tab just because I was not looking there for a few minutes. It makes the browser basically unusable for anyone apart from pre-schoolers.
When I keep multiple tabs open, most probably there is a reason for it. And unloading them completely defies the whole purpose of the ability to keep them open. Are we going back to IE 1.0 era?
I quite love Opera (loved it much more years ago, with Presto engine, then the switch to Chromium came...understandably, as Presto developers were unable to keep pace with quickening development in the web world), but it is continually getting worse with each Chromium update. And now, with this one, it has become a complete disaster.

How can we let stupid google decide what is good for us and what is not? It seems like FF will become the only viable option. Or...?

@vitaliy698 Вы не сам, у нас всех появилась эта проблема после последнего обновления. Люди уже спрашивают об этом тут: https://forums.opera.com/topic/44814/opera-refreshing-pages-automatically-if-background-tab-left-for-a-certain-time?_=1605262054931&lang=en-US
К сожалению, это "улучшение" Chromium. на котором основана Опера, и пока никаких предложений для исправки нету.

@leocg Thanks for replying, I frankly thought you are from the 'inside'. I just hope then that some developer will read it.
Sadly, the proposed approach with discards is practically unusable - I open a new tab, and...here we go again. Moreover, it conveniently forgets the setting of the "auto discardable" flag on a simple browser restart. which would mean I'd have to go there and fiddle with it everytime upon starting the browser. Unusable.
And as to the "solution" - very nice of them - people complain about eating too much RAM so, instead of optimizing our code, let's simply discard their data from RAM. And it won't help CPU usage either; on the contrary - each reload of a discarded tab costs quite a lot of CPU, and even more data. The folks at google seem to have lost the last bits of any brain they have had.
This "solution" very much reminds me of one folk song where the lyrics go like "to prevent people from stealing, let's cut off their arms; to prevent them from running away, let's cut off their legs." This "solution" is very much just that.

@leocg Thanks for replying, I frankly thought you are from the 'inside'. I just hope then that some developer will read it.
Sadly, the proposed approach with discards is practically unusable - I open a new tab, and...here we go again. Moreover, it conveniently forgets the setting of the "auto discardable" flag on a simple browser restart. which would mean I'd have to go there and fiddle with it everytime upon starting the browser. Unusable.
And as to the "solution" - very nice of them - people complain about eating too much RAM so, instead of optimizing our code, let's simply discard their data from RAM. And it won't help CPU usage either; on the contrary - each reload of a discarded tab costs quite a lot of CPU, and even more data. The folks at google seem to have lost the last bits of any brain they have had.
This "solution" very much reminds me of one folk song where the lyrics go like "to prevent people from stealing, let's cut off their arms; to prevent them from running away, let's cut off their legs." This "solution" is very much just that.

@vitaliy698 Вы не сам, у нас всех появилась эта проблема после последнего обновления. Люди уже спрашивают об этом тут: https://forums.opera.com/topic/44814/opera-refreshing-pages-automatically-if-background-tab-left-for-a-certain-time?_=1605262054931&lang=en-US
К сожалению, это "улучшение" Chromium. на котором основана Опера, и пока никаких предложений для исправки нету.

@leocg Is there any workaround? Or can you develop any?
I mean, that is a plain idiocy, to simply unload a tab just because I was not looking there for a few minutes. It makes the browser basically unusable for anyone apart from pre-schoolers.
When I keep multiple tabs open, most probably there is a reason for it. And unloading them completely defies the whole purpose of the ability to keep them open. Are we going back to IE 1.0 era?
I quite love Opera (loved it much more years ago, with Presto engine, then the switch to Chromium came...understandably, as Presto developers were unable to keep pace with quickening development in the web world), but it is continually getting worse with each Chromium update. And now, with this one, it has become a complete disaster.

How can we let stupid google decide what is good for us and what is not? It seems like FF will become the only viable option. Or...?