greetings!
1.I would like to close the last tab without closing the app. The behaviour I expect is the app to open a new blank tab when I close the last tab. Currently I cannot close the last tab which already has some website opened in it.
2. When I open a new tab, i'm forced to enter a website address. I expect to the app to simply open a blank new tab & leave it to me whether to enter a address or not.
Thanks for your support. I love firefox for Android.
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Tyler Downer 5 years ago This is being worked on, and will be changed in Firefox 18 or 19 to allow closing the last tab.
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kishore_b 5 years ago Thanks a lot. Kindly go through the second point also. While opening a new tab the app currently insists on entering the address. I would prefer to have a blank tab opened & me decide to enter address or not.
Many Thanks -
cor-el 5 years ago Set the browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab pref to false on the about:config page to prevent closing the last tab from closing that window and make a close button appear if only one tab is open.
Note that this may not work in poop-up windows.
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kbrosnan 5 years ago Cor-el That pref does not apply to Firefox for Android.
Kishore for now you can load about:home directly then you can close the other tabs. I don't think Firefox for Android will be going away from the model of opening a new tab opens the Awesome screen. Not simple but it works.
I think Tyler is a touch optimistic on when the feature he is describing will land. It is more likely to come in 20 or 21 as those are the next two Nightly development cycles.
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kishore_b 5 years ago well, I would prefer to leave it to the end user whether he wants the awesome screen while pressing a new tab button/ or open a simple blank page. Let him choose it in the config.
regards,
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Tyler Downer 5 years ago kbrosnan, it's actually landed in nightly already, so unless there are problems should be in 19 :)