I had about 17 tabs open on my browser. I clicked a link to open another one and when the tab opened the other tabs disappeared. What happened here?
I had 17 tabs open. When I clicked a link to open a new tab all the other tabs disappeared. I thought a new window had been opened instead, but this is not the case there is only one window open on my mozilla browser. If I try to close the window I get a message that says there are 26 tabs opened, I opened 9 more tabs. Can anybody tell me what is going on here or how I might figure this out?
Also, when I close a tab and try to reopen the tab using the right click menu, the 'undo closed tab' menu is disabled. What happened here? Can anybody tell me how to re-enable it?
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I've seen some occasional glitches with windows losing the toolbar area, but not one that disturbing.
If you click and drag down on the 18th tab enough to tear it off into a new window (and possibly the same for the other newer tabs you opened), can you get the 17 tabs to re-appear in the first window? If not, I'm not sure there is a way to mend the window. If it's NOT a private browsing session, you might have to use Firefox > Exit (or File > Exit) and restore your session to get a working window. That won't work with a private window...
As a backstop, you might also right-click a tab in the window > Bookmark All Tabs before ending your session. (Because session cookies and other transient data are not preserved when you reload bookmarks, this isn't as effective as restoring a session. On the other hand, bookmark storage is less fragile than session data storage.)
Regarding Undo Close Tab, are the closed tabs listed on the History menu under Recently Closed Tabs? If so, that context menu item definitely should be enabled.
Изменено jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
You can also try to evaluate this code in the Browser/Error Console (Firefox/Tools > Web Developer;Ctrl+Shift+J) to get a list of tabs from the current window.
const {classes:Cc,interfaces:Ci} = Components;
var wm = Cc["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"].getService(Ci.nsIWindowMediator);
var mW = wm.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
var gB = mW.gBrowser;
var l = gB.mPanelContainer.childNodes.length; var mT = gB.mTabContainer.childNodes; var i,t=[];
for(var i=0;i<l;i++){
H = gB.getBrowserAtIndex(i).contentDocument.location; L = mT[i].getAttribute('label');
t.push('['+(i+1)+'] <a href="'+H+'">'+H+' «'+L+'»'+ '</a>');
}
var dataURI = 'data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<html><body>'+t.join('<br>')+'</body></html>';
var tab = gB.addTab(dataURI); gB.selectedTab = tab;
Hi jscher2000
I tried dragging each tab into a new window. The uploaded picture is what I found happened. Just looks like a blank mozilla window with two tabs. I am not in a private browsing session.
In regards to my undo close tab menu when I look at my history window at the recently closed tabs title it is also disabled and I can reopen a closed tab. A few days ago when I was typing a message on the mozilla browser on a webpage a similar screen to the one I posted on this message also popped up. I tried to close it out so I could go back to working on my message, but I ended up losing every tab I had open and had to start all over again. I think it was that day that I lost my ability to reopen closed tabs using the right click menu and the recently closed windows bar.
Cor-el, sorry I really don't know a thing about browser codes or how to use them.
Thank you both of you for your time and help, I hope something I typed here was useful.
I don't use the tab groups feature, but I think your screen shot might be the one that comes up when you press Ctrl+Shift+e to display tab groups. Is it possible to expand either of the blue boxes to show all the tabs in the group?
More on tab groups:
Hi jscher2000,
pressing ctrl+shift+e brought up exactly what I saw the first time that seemed to disable the undo close tab. When I press that combination of keys I see only the tabs I reopened, not all the other tabs I had open before.
On my screen shot if I press either of the icon pictures the box expands and then returns back to its original size and that's all I can do with it.
Would it just be easier to uninstall firefox from my computer and then redown load it with the obvious draw back being that I lose every book mark I had open before?
Looks that you have two tab groups.
You should be able to drag all tabs into one group (i.e. the one that shows at the left in your screenshot) when the tab groups window is open.
I don't know what happened but now I can open closed tabs using my right click menu and open recently closed tabs in my history browser. I closed the window that I gave the screen shot of and there was no mention of closing the 17 tabs I had open on it originally, they are lost to god knows what in the cyber world. Well Thank You Both Of You For The Help, Still Learned Something New From All This.
Take Care,
Darrin
The window in your screenshot is the window to manage tab groups.
You can open this window via an icon on the Navigation Toolbar once you have created (named) a tab group and close the tab group window either by selecting one of the tab thumbnails on the page or via the grid icon in the top right corner.
You can also drag a thumbnail form one group to another group if you have more than one group.
The context menu of the tab bar shows a Move to Group entry.