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Hey, in other browsers when you type something in the address bar, for example "youtube" you get suggested searches/links and if you click on them with middle-mouse button (Firefox shift+Middle-Mouse button) you open them in a new unfocused tab and keep the search menu open and can keep clicking on suggestions.

In Firefox the search menu closes after each opened tab and I want it to stay open without having to type in it again after each opened tab. The new tab is unfocused as it should be, I just want the search bar to not clear itself.

I do not want to have to create hundreds of bookmarks for suggested searches.

tabs I do not have open appear below search window, how can I stop that’ for ‘Firefox?

Sites I do have open are at the top, that's all I need, this extra vector of links I don't want now clutters by screen and may be using my resources.

the tab groups feature doesn't work. WHen i drag one tab onto another, nothing happens, other than the tabs go back and forth. Can't put one tab over another and no group is created.

Please consider optimizing the resource management while minimizing a tab group. This would be an amazing option to be included. If its already present in the tab groups inherent workflow, please add more documentation about its effects and more. Maybe adding optional workflows for a scenario of usage like a energy efficient usage button for a tab group is a great idea.

I seem to have accidentally set up tab-groups, on desktop. Probably I fat-fingered a shortcut to group some tabs. This is a function I'll never intentionally use — since I'd rather not cut off my fat fingers, is there a way to permanently shut off tab-groups?

Thank you kindly.

Sometimes when I click on a tab I go to that tab but the tab itself gets moved to the right end of the tab bar, I have no clue what causes this, and it's typically infrequent enough that I've mostly forgotten about it before it happens again

I've switched to vertical tabs as soon as they became available, and although I prefer using them, at the moment there is an annoying issue with them. If you have one or several pinned tabs, clicking one of them does show the corresponding page, but you can't interact with it until you click into it. To reproduce, have at least one pinned tab and a normal one. If you click on a normal tab and then press "Tab", the focus will start jumping between elements that are focusable. But if you click on a pinned tab, pressing "Tab" will first jump through the tab bar a few times before finally getting to the page: First, the tab itself will get the focus, then the "New tab" button, then the "Customize sidebar" gear icon, and only then does the focus move to the page itself.

What's annoying about it in practice is that one of my pinned tabs is a site that uses keyboard shortcuts for interaction, and whenever I click on it and start pressing keys, nothing happens. Then I have to click into the page once to move the focus to it, and only then does it become usable again.

So, it would be great if pinned tabs would behave the same way as normal ones, immediately focusing the page when clicked.

Browser stopped showing all opened tabs across toolbar. Used to be able to see & toggle between several open tabs (websites) at the same time. Now browser only opens 1 bookmark tab & cannot even use backup button to see any previous tabs. Firefox 138..0.4

I'm using 138.0.4 in MacOS 15.5. When I updated to MacOS 15.5 Firefox only saved one of three windows. The MacOS toolbar at the bottom no longer gives me the option of opening another window, or selecting another window already open. I like the old behavior better.

I am very used to switching tabs by using the keyboard so I usually do Ctrl+tab and I have it set to recent order (which makes sense to me because most of the time you switch back and forth between two or three tabs) to navigate between tabs. In some recent update, some tabs became unreachable by using this keyboard shortcut, as no more tabs are displayed nor do they appear when you reach the end of the list, forcing me to use the mouse to look for the tab (please see screenshot attached).

I was hoping this had a workaround or if it is a bug I would like to know how to report it.

Thank you!

Nicolas

I have the most recent update and have been excited about tab groups, but it's still not working on mine. I thought the update would be available to all as of May 6, 2025. Is this happening to anyone else?

I lost all my tabs groups with the the update to release date for Firefox 138.0.4 on the 2025-05-19. Tab groups are still configured but my sessionstore.js is missing. I notice that there is a backup in Session-store backups dated the 2025-05-19 so I presume the tabs groups are still stored there. Can anybody suggest how to get the tab functionality back? I'm hesitant to just restore the sessionstore.js -- the actual tab group functionality is gone. I can't even recreate the groups.

Hello,

I dislike the Group Tabs feature. So many times I've accidentally created a Group Tab and then had to figure out how to un-group them.

I've tried to change the value of the "browser.tabs.groups.enabled" preference to false, but it doesn't stick; after restarting, the value is always back to "true".

What’s up with this?

Thanks, Andre’a

This is not an error, but it may be useful for some users of the Mac version of Firefox to know.

I have several tabs pinned to the left side of the tab bar (just the icons). Some of them I intend to use as "model" tabs to be duplicated for a session and the duplicate then deleted (such as bank logins).

I have found that, if I left-click to select a pinned tab and THEN right click and select Duplicate Tab, the duplicate appears immediately to the right of the pinned tabs, and to the left of any open non-pinned tabs. But if I right-click the pinned tab WITHOUT first left-clicking it, it goes to the right of the LAST non-pinned tab on the right.

This does not cause any errors, but it may be useful for some people to know; they can control where they want the duplicate tab to appear when they create it!

Hello, recently i reinstalled firefox and made a new profile from scratch because i thought the config: browser.search.context.loadInBackground did not work for me.

My problem: everytime i open a google tab (through context search or just a new google link) it opens in the background BUT then switches to it after like 1-2 seconds. this only happens with google links.

i have no idea what to do anymore, reinstalling did fix it till the last update i got today. now it is back.