Memory saver "enabled" at launch when explicitly off

[darkmann]

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:
   
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:

I expect tabs to load at browser launch and not to see the “inactive” status on any tabs.

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

Edit: Since moved to CachyOS and still the same

[0n3Tw03]

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.

[UnDroid]

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)

[Vinid]

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

Automatic refresh of tabs/Discards of tabs

Hello everyone. Just recently I’ve noticed that there is a problem for my brave browser, maybe after latest update. My current Brave version on Windows OS is: Version 1.78.94 Chromium: 136.0.7103.60 (Official Build) (64-bit) I’ve noticed that my tabs are now and then discarding themselves, then when I reenter the tab, it is refreshing the content, instead of staying active all the time or/and loaded in the place I have left at. I have already turned off all memory saver options, as I have 64…

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.”

[craig1427]

Same issue here. Once I turned it on I cannot shut it off. Even the excluded tabs go back to “hibernating”

[philip47]

This kind of behavior really affects my workflow, and I was hoping for more control over these settings. I’ve decided to switch to another browser for now, as this is becoming too frustrating to deal with, hopefully this gets addressed properly in the future.