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This applies to the latest Firefox for Android version (this issue did not occur with the previous version). I manually closed my tabs and closed the Firefox app when I exit. However, when I open the app again, the previously closed tabs are there as if they were never closed. This is fixed if I delete browsing data but, obviously, this is not an ideal solution. I have tried to attach a short clip of this issue in action but it will not upload. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have noticed for a while that when I have a tab open and switch apps and come back to Firefox, that many times the tab is blank. I try to switch tabs and switch back and the tab is either still blank or displays the content of the other tab that I had switched to. Usually its with the newest tab but sometimes can be an older tab that is currently the active tab. The only way I can figure out to get the tab working again is to close the tab and use the message that appears to "undo" this change and restore the tab.

Any help would be appreciated since this happens on almost a daily basis and will typically happen multiple times a day

Hello,

When I press the address bar to go to another website and don't type address by myself but use a bookmark from startpage a new tab is always opened. I almost all situations I don't want to open a new tab. Is there a way to configure to not always open new Tabs? I don't find information about this in FAQ.

Was asked by the devs on Google Play store to submit this ask for further investigation: When I manually close tabs on the app and then exit the app, the tabs I closed will still be there when I open the app next. It's like I never closed them!

It happens pretty frequently, I'd say about multiple times a day, depending on how much I'm using the app. It happens with both new tabs and old tabs I've had open for a while.

The only solution I've found through my own experimentation is to close the tabs that keep resurrecting and then immediately clear the app cache. That seems to keep closed tabs dead for good, but this doesn't always work. Sometimes they reappear, even after clearing the cache. I had 5 closed tabs reopen on me yesterday.

I don't want to set it up to auto close all tabs, and I don't want to leave Firefox running in the background all the time. I'm hoping a permanent fix will be implemented in a future update.

So I have a lot of inactive tabs open on my mobile device Samsung Galaxy S21 (I do not know and can't find out how many exactly); and I want to be able to have a "backup" of them so to speak, or be able to save and transfer them somehow as a file locally on my phone or a folder on my desktop through the sync function, if possible. But I believe I'm running into issues because the sheer number of them is too large?

Here's the thing though, I already did this with my tablet's (Samsung Tab S7) Firefox browser app, and since it had fewer inactive tabs, I was successful in sharing their data into a Samsung Notes file and saving that as a PDF on the tablet! So this seems like a reasonable solution (I think? but please let me know if I'm wrong about that).

So far, the Firefox app on my phone has crashed every time I've attempted this. I was using the "share all tabs" function from the tab settings menu and no matter what method of saving the info I chose (i.e. saving them to a Notes file, as a PDF directly, upload to a cloud storage, or printing it even...), the app froze momentarily and then quit, not allowing for the backup of the data.

I understand that the file size is probably too large but there is no other option for only doing the "sharing"/saving in smaller sections or chunks either. So, I would appreciate any help you can offer me in how I can fix this, deal with the process, or pointing in the right direction of some other method that would help me achieve the same goal!! :)

Thank you so much in advance, hope you are having a fun & lovely October day/night!

(oh btw, P.S. I thought I'd attach the crash logs of both my phone's own reports for the app AND the crash logs you can access in the Firefox app as screenshots in case that's helpful ^_^ and of course I'm also going to leave the Socorro link for the specific most recent crash related to these issue down below this paragraph! Hope that's useful somewhat!!)

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https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/f473dd1b-e3eb-46ad-9d8b-51a1e0231013

On Firefox Desktop, Addons can access and delete tabs that are older than x Days, surpass a threshhold of y max tabs etc.

Fenix supports only to close tabs after 1 week or one month, which is a huge difference. 2 weeks is not available, as well as "close oldest tab if you open more than x tabs".

Can Addons access the Tabs? Other option would be to implement this essential feature, as the current implementation is good but not good enough.

In Firefox for Windows under General Settings there is an option to Open previous tabs and windows. I cannot find anything like this in Firefox for Android, Since I'm sure that Mozilla wouldn't omit a simple feature like this from the Android version, Im guessing that the option is called something else. So where is it? How do I get Firefox for Android to ope all the tabs that were open the last time I shut it down?

Im using firefox since 2012 it was great until a couple month ago. The bug is when im browsing website like a payment page, when i switching between the apps and return to payment page, the firefox will refreshing the page automatically without asking any permission and payment will get fail error. This is awful

Hello,

This morning, I have accidentally close all my tabs (60+ tabs, which were open for more than 5+ years), while I wanted to reopen a recently closed tab. I suppose that this mistake was due to the sensitivity of the touch screen, since both option are next to each other in the menu.

I see multiple problems here: - There was no dialog asking me if I wanted to close all my tabs. While on Desktop this dialog exists. So for a long time I had no clue what just happened. - As I remember, Firefox did not gave me the opportunity to undo my action.

Now, the question is: How can I reopen all my closed tabs ? The menu "Recently closed tabs" have only 10 items, and those do not belong to the 60+ tabs that have been closed.

Is there a way to reopen all the tabs that I accidentally closed (I do not use Firefox Sync) ?

Thanks in advance

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I used Chrome,Brave and Edge on Mobile. Clicking Home button, they don't create an extra tab with the previous one when I search anything or go to other website. But I see Firefox does that everytime. I don't need that. I always feel comfortable to use only one tab. So manually closing a tab repeatedly is very annoying for me. Is there any solution?

I used Chrome,Brave and Edge on Mobile. Clicking Home button, they don't create an extra tab with the previous one when I search anything or go to other website. But I see Firefox does that everytime. I don't need that. I always feell comfortable to use only one tab. So manually closing a tab repeatedly is very annoying for me. Is there any solution?

I'm using the firefox app on an Android device, and haven't had any problems so far. But now when I click on a link, firefox opens 2 new tabs but stays on the same one and I have to click again before the link opens. I have installed the latest update of firefox and have no extensions or add-ons.

Kinda just throwing this out here. I have over 5 thousands tabs open on mobile. If I had to wager a guess I'd say I have at least 10,000 if not 20,000. I did actually count to the 5,000 for certain. My main question is I just wanna know if there is a way to definitively know how many I have. I know on the desktop version you can and I have done so, but that wont tell you how many are open on mobile. When ever I try to share all tabs my firefox immediately crashes, all the tabs will reopen afterwards. I just really wanna know how many tabs I have so I write down the number and get to closing them. Thank you for reading.

Please, many people find an oying the fact that Some installed WebApps still have a Top bar on then with the adress site (which is unneded and ruins the purpose of installing a WebApp. Here I will upload 2 pictures, one on youtube and one on reddit. Both with the annoying top bar. Just let us disable it!

I already use Firefox for Desktop and I'm currently moving from Chrome to Firefox on Android, one feature that I miss is the possibility of splitting the screen with two instances of browser each side.

Firefox allow splitting but you can only open a different app on the other side. I'd like to open Firefox on both sides and move tabs from one side to another.

I've attached one image to show how it look like on Chrome.

I tried to search for a solution, but the keywords are too common... Some time ago, I used to access the list of tabs and it would show me the END of the open tab list. Recently, It happens just rarely - most of the time, FF shows the beginning of the list (first, second... tab), and I have to scroll trough all of the open tabs to get to the last one. This is extremely frustrating. Is there any setting that can force FF to open the en of the open tab list?