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Is there a way to white-list an app (web browser) so Froyo 2.2 memory manager does NOT kill it?

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One of my biggest pet peeves with Android (due to heavy use of my Droid X for reading web pages) is the fact that it can kill ANY application it wishes when doing its automated memory management. Especially, the fact that it **usually** starts by killing the stock browser as opposed to other less useful apps. More specifically, if I: - have multiple tabs open in Android's native browser (or even a single tab with some state in it, such as Google Reader) - and then switch to some memory hogging app(s), e.g. some heavy game from Glu or Google Maps/Navigation - Then, Android memory manager decides to kill my browser to free up memory (as opposed to, say, such critically important processes like Google Play or media player which I don't want) - Which, due to Froyo's stock browser not preserving its session state , loses all the open tabs I had, as well as in-tab state (e.g. which Google Reader article was open). **Is there a way to white-list an app (web browser) so Froyo 2.2 memory manager does NOT kill it?** *System:* Droid X with stock Froyo 2.2 ROM, rooted.
Asked by DVK (2099 rep)
May 5, 2012, 10:35 PM
Last activity: Oct 7, 2013, 04:46 PM