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The most dangerous software of this entire cycle has been @metamask. The "automatic network switcher" which will flip you to a different network at random between an approval & send. Updates which degraded performance to the point where having lots of wallets can just crash out the extension. Horrifying downgrades.
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@pbear
Hey - sorry to hear you've had problems. Can you share any more details about the issue(s) you've encountered, ideally step-by-step? In general, "automatic network switching" has been one of the most requested and well-received of our updates, but we are also in the process of further abstracting away multi-network complexities so any feedback about situations you're encountering where it doesn't work how you'd like would be really helpful. Thanks!
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Hey Pat, It's been a constant - network switching seems to happen usually when opening a new page/switching tabs, with switches being to the most random of networks. Quick example; basescan seems to always switch me to Dogechain (??), bscscan often switches me to mainnet, 1inch will almost always swap me to Polygon PoS, uniswap often throws me on to arbitrum, Jumper often throws me on to base. Moving between tabs is one of the most dangerous points - i.e: open cowswap, request a quote on mainnet, tab to another window and suddenly my network has swapped to arbitrum or base, tab back to cowswap and it doesn't swap me back to mainnet. Had my first ever instance of sending tokens on the wrong network via this. Swapped to mainnet, then swapped tab to a spreadsheet to get an address, MM auto-swapped to Base and I sent off 1200 USDC on that network. Cowswap themselves have even added a warning on swaps due to the frequency of this problem occurring;
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@pbear
Thanks, we really appreciate the feedback. This isn't expected behavior - each tab can have its own network connection, and each tab can only switch network if you have previously granted that tab/app the permission to auto-switch to a given network. So I'm not sure how a spreadsheet or random tab could lead to this behavior, and I/we are not yet able to reproduce (but we'll keep working on it). Are you by chance using Firefox? Any other details you can think of that might help us reproduce?
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What version are you on? My best guess is this is related to a big we found and fixed previously but maybe you are still on the older pre-fix version. Let me know your version if/when you can, and Iā€™ll try to confirm.
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