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Tab bar inaccessible

Since the latest update, the tab bar will not and can not be made visible. This looks to be the case when the home page setting is “open new tab after 4 hours idle” optio… (read more)

Since the latest update, the tab bar will not and can not be made visible. This looks to be the case when the home page setting is “open new tab after 4 hours idle” option. You start the app in iOS, it shows the home page, but you can’t get the tabs bar to become visible by scrolling up or down. I’ve only gotten it to work by exiting the app and then reopening it.

Asked by Matthew 2 years ago

Last reply by Kevin Frost 2 years ago

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How to stop firefox from forcing a new tab for "new" web pages?

Apologies if this is a bit limited, during typing it I ran into the issue I'm about to describe which navigated me away from this page and lost all the progress of my pos… (read more)

Apologies if this is a bit limited, during typing it I ran into the issue I'm about to describe which navigated me away from this page and lost all the progress of my post as I was wrapping up :')

The issue I'm having right now is Firefox forcibly opening pages it thinks are a new site in new tabs, despite the site itself not requesting new tabs or windows. Specifically this is happening with sites between different "iterations" of itself while still being the same and having fully integrated layouts and UI.

For example: Most pages on the site have an update "https://www1" prefix, but some pages have the old "https://" only. Firefox keeps opening new tabs when navigating between these different pages despite them being the same website. I know the pages themselves are not sending new tab requests because this doesn't happen in Chrome.

So far, my "solution" has been to go through about:config to adjust the browser.link.open_newwindow value to 1 instead of 3, which forces all links to stay within the same window. This unfortunately causes a whole host of other issues though.

Because its an override, it also means any links opened from an external program (like discord) forcibly open in the last active tab, navigating away from the page. This is obnoxious and annoying in and of itself because it means to save the tabs I already have open I need to manually open a new tab in FF before clicking any link, which I never remember to do. (Goodbye post progress (': )

If that weren't bad enough, when trying to hit the back button to get to the previous page FF ends up in some sort of weird redirection loop "between" pages, where the last page will disappear but FF won't navigate to the link it was trying to open either, so its just a blank infinitely loading page with the URL of the link that was opened. The only way to stop this from happening is to navigate back 2 pages, losing the current page, before it starts the redirect loop. If the loop starts before this happens, the tab locks up and needs to be hard-refreshed with f5 or completely closed due to the weird lag it causes.

Literally all I want Firefox to do here is not assume a new tab needs to be opened just because the URL "seems" different to it. Is there ANY way to get this behavior?

Asked by 7 1 year ago

Answered by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 1 year ago

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Firefox for iPadOS: Where are the tabs?

With the new Firefox for iPadOS, I can create a new tab, but there’s no mechanism for getting to it. The tabs at the top of the screen are gone, and there’s no button at … (read more)

With the new Firefox for iPadOS, I can create a new tab, but there’s no mechanism for getting to it. The tabs at the top of the screen are gone, and there’s no button at the bottom of the screen as there is in iOS (I just checked). I can, of course, switch to the new tab immediately, but then I can’t go back to the old one. If there’s a way to switch tabs now, I can’t find it.

Asked by rjmx 2 years ago

Last reply by rjmx 1 year ago

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Tab close after following the link

Heeeeeeeelp, since yesterday, I can not use the tabs propperly anymore: when I make a google search, and I click on a link, it pops up a new tab, and the google search t… (read more)

Heeeeeeeelp,

since yesterday, I can not use the tabs propperly anymore: when I make a google search, and I click on a link, it pops up a new tab, and the google search tab closes. so I can not go back to my search, since it is a new tab and it has no previous page. my previous serch tab, is closed, the only way to acess it is to reopen closed tab. this is very annoying.

I only had this problem when I was geting a facebook search result, this always poped up in a new tab and closed the search tab.

but now it happens all the time what is the problem? regards f.

Asked by f.s3 1 year ago

Last reply by Paul 1 year ago

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Disable tab refresh when switching - no solution

I have tried all of the about:config options to disable the auto-reload of the tabs. I have this working fine on my old machine macbook pro 2015 (same firefox version), b… (read more)

I have tried all of the about:config options to disable the auto-reload of the tabs. I have this working fine on my old machine macbook pro 2015 (same firefox version), but on the macbook pro 2019 i cannot get it to stop. Any help would be great as I need to switch between tabs during meetings and dont want them to keep relaoding

Asked by dubado 1 year ago

Answered by cor-el 1 year ago

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Tab Switching

Hello FF/Moz Community, I want to right-click on links and open them in a new tab (easy). BUT I want to stay on the original tab where I'm clicking the links. Currently … (read more)

Hello FF/Moz Community,

I want to right-click on links and open them in a new tab (easy). BUT I want to stay on the original tab where I'm clicking the links. Currently when I right-click a link FF opens the new tab and I'm moved to active tab. The original tab is one or ten tabs to the left.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Thank you.

Asked by Torben 1 year ago

Last reply by TyDraniu 1 year ago

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Searching open tabs on ios ipad

I’m sure it’s easy but I cannot find the answer anywhere. How do I search my open tabs? Conversely how do I change the search to search the web instead? Or does search (i… (read more)

I’m sure it’s easy but I cannot find the answer anywhere. How do I search my open tabs? Conversely how do I change the search to search the web instead? Or does search (in the URL line) do both and differentiates the results somehow?

Thanks

Asked by janes1001 2 years ago

Last reply by janes1001 1 year ago

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Tabs disappear

My tabs keep disappearing in Firefox for iOS (iPad). If I close Firefox and reopen they reappear. I can’t scroll up or down to get them back. Any ideas on what setting ha… (read more)

My tabs keep disappearing in Firefox for iOS (iPad). If I close Firefox and reopen they reappear. I can’t scroll up or down to get them back. Any ideas on what setting has gone wrong or what I am missing

Asked by progtastic_neu 1 year ago

Last reply by progtastic_neu 1 year ago

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wheres all my tabs?

Occasionally all my tabs go away. I always find them, but today,"history>recently closed tabs" is greyed out. NEW I did not even close Firefox Please help steve … (read more)

Occasionally all my tabs go away. I always find them, but today,"history>recently closed tabs" is greyed out. NEW I did not even close Firefox Please help steve z

mac os 12.1  ; firefox 98.02

Asked by bodney 1 year ago

Last reply by cor-el 1 year ago

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Grouping tabs

I would love it if I was able to group tabs in Firefox. Many other browsers are able to do this, but I love using Firefox and don't want to switch. However, I will if thi… (read more)

I would love it if I was able to group tabs in Firefox. Many other browsers are able to do this, but I love using Firefox and don't want to switch. However, I will if this functionality isn't implemented. I understand that grouping used to be a feature, so I am assuming it wouldn't be that hard to implement. Thank you!

Asked by Michael M. 1 year ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 year ago

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how to make firefox to reload pinned tabs on startup

I recently deleted the file with firefox settings (can't remember the name) cause i was unable to what netflix/hbo. now however, whenever i open firefox my pinned tabs (1… (read more)

I recently deleted the file with firefox settings (can't remember the name) cause i was unable to what netflix/hbo. now however, whenever i open firefox my pinned tabs (16 tabs) does not reload the pages as in does not refresh the content of the page. it use to refresh the page inside these pinned tabs when i open firefox but now the pages are still the old version. i have to refresh these pinned tabs manually.

so is there any settings to make these pinned tabs to actually refresh the page when i open firefox? i'm confuse why firefox it still shows that its loading the page cause it actually show the same page content that was a day before.

Asked by user.for.forms 1 year ago

Last reply by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer 1 year ago

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My Firefox browser is constantly crashing and cannot load pages perfectly.

Hi. So, for me, Firefox is constantly crashing and cannot load pages perfectly. Every time I open YouTube, Firefox crashes. Is there any way to fix this? Thaks! Regards,… (read more)

Hi. So, for me, Firefox is constantly crashing and cannot load pages perfectly. Every time I open YouTube, Firefox crashes. Is there any way to fix this? Thaks!

Regards, Kristian.

Asked by Kristian 1 year ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 year ago

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Receiving

Phishing emails websites on gmail that I’ve unsubscribed multiple times from gmail needs to clear out it’s server

Asked by dlknapp 1 year ago

Answered by Paul 1 year ago

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Tab behavior changed recently

I'm on a Windows machine. In the past, when I clicked on a link in email, a new tab was opened in Firefox leaving existing tabs active. This has recently changed and now … (read more)

I'm on a Windows machine. In the past, when I clicked on a link in email, a new tab was opened in Firefox leaving existing tabs active. This has recently changed and now opens in the active tab.

I know about CTRL/Click, but this doesn't work from within Outlook.

I tried a hack in about:config, but found that everything opened in a new tab. For example when clicking on a search list within eBay, every click then opened a new tab. There seem to a lot of tab related config settings there, so I have done a reset to get FF back to its default behavior.

If there a way to open links in a new tab without forcing every click (say to the same domain) in a new tab?

Might this have something to do with the new container feature?

Asked by dadster 2 years ago

Last reply by dadster 1 year ago

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Firefox window insists on randomly scrolling

Hi, I have been using Firefox for many years now, but just recently it has annoyingly started to randomly scroll up or down. This may happen almost immediately, or it may… (read more)

Hi, I have been using Firefox for many years now, but just recently it has annoyingly started to randomly scroll up or down. This may happen almost immediately, or it may only happen after a few minutes. This is extremely disconcerting when reading (for example) a large webpage or forum.

Initially I thought it was a faulty mouse. I tried swapping out the mouse, but then I discovered that even if I open the browser, scroll (using the scroll wheel on the mouse) partway down a page, and then immediately turn off both mouse and keyboard, it still randomly scrolls (usually up) after a few seconds. I have also tried to see if I can get any other application to do this, but no, it is definitely only Firefox.

A quick read online and somebody else mentioned "Enhanced mouse scroll" or something similar, but I think they are talking about a Windows "feature". I am running Ubuntu 20.04 64 bit with the latest version (98.0) of Firefox.

I have not changed any settings with my browser in recent times either, however there have been periodic Ubuntu updates, and this covers Firefox updates too. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Asked by Witenite 2 years ago

Last reply by Witenite 1 year ago

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Strance behaviours when loading a page when connection is slow

Sometimes when loading a page, and the page is slow to respond, I will see a strange situation: The page is totally blank (the F12 tool does not display page content). Th… (read more)

Sometimes when loading a page, and the page is slow to respond, I will see a strange situation: The page is totally blank (the F12 tool does not display page content). The refresh button is gray (disabled), or sometimes although the refresh button enabled, the url textbox is "about:blank", which means I cannot actually reload the page I want to read. I have to re-navigate to the page through the link in the previous link. I'm not sure whether I got across. I hope the issue can be fixed.

Asked by SolidBlock 2 years ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 year ago