Memory saver "enabled" at launch when explicitly off? Am I just interpreting it wrong?

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Description of the issue:
How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Have memory saver off
  2. At browser launch, several tabs have the “inactive” label:
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  3. ???
  4. When one of these tabs is clicked, it indeed has not loaded and needs time to load

Expected result:
Since I have memory saver disabled:

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I expect tabs to load at browser launch and not to see the “inactive” status on any tabs - UNLESS (and this is the “Am I just interpreting it wrong?” part) it’s just a visual indicator and I have it all mixed up.

Brave Version( check About Brave):
Version 1.78.94 Chromium: 136.0.7103.60 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia, Cinnamon DE

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Thanks for creating this, I can confirm that I’m having the same issue on macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 as well and my “Memory Saver” settings are identical to yours also.

This new update seems to ignore any of those settings on that page as a tab will go “inactive” within minutes of me clicking on another one and no way to change it.

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Hello,
i have the same issue. Memory saver is disabled, but it is still active.
Version 1.78.94 Chromium: 136.0.7103.60 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit)

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I think this might be same thing that is being pushed recently for all browsers and I described it in:

There is a way of turning off manually Tab Discards , but no way to turn off Tab Freeze.
Feel free to check my topic for explanation, but I do not know of any browser option to turn it off completely. This was just pushed and we can’t opt it out.

In short:
“Looking through similar issues I found out about brave://discards/ but those settings reset every time and do not allow me to turn off this option completely.”