Join the AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the Firefox leadership team to celebrate Firefox 20th anniversary and discuss Firefox’s future on Mozilla Connect. Mark your calendar on Thursday, November 14, 18:00 - 20:00 UTC!

This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

everytime i click on a opened tab it gets refreshed automatically. How do i stop it

  • 11 ŋuɖoɖowo
  • 8 masɔmasɔ sia le wosi
  • 15 views
  • Nuɖoɖo mlɔetɔ jayfram

more options

I have opend multiple tabs, everytime when i switch to a opened tabs the page in that tab gets refreshed automatically.

I have opend multiple tabs, everytime when i switch to a opened tabs the page in that tab gets refreshed automatically.

All Replies (11)

more options

Hi,

I think you're talking about the new "Don't load tabs until selected" feature.

Just go in Firefox > Options > General, and uncheck "Don't load tabs until selected". Hope it helps :)

more options

Thanks For your reply,

But actually wat happened here is, i opend firefox with my home page and opend somemore tabs, the problem was when i move to already opened tab it get refreshed everytime.

more options

Are you opening the tabs in the background?

You can set the Boolean pref sessionstore.restore_hidden_tabs to true on the about:config page to see if that helps.

more options

I have had this once or twice recently, the latest was after I had updated Firefox. I agreed to the update when I had two Firefox windows open - each with multiple tabs. When Firefox automatically re-opened the windows after the update, I found that each time I switched between tabs they automatically refreshed. I couldn't find a way to stop it, so looked on here. Then started thinking and realised it may be associated with the restart after updating. So I closed Firefox down and, hey presto, when I opened it again it was working normally again! So it definitely looks like a "feature" of the automatic restart after installing an update.

JohnM2 trɔe

more options

I have the same problem. Whenever I click on a tab it starts to refresh itself and it makes it very time consuming to switch between tabs. Many times I just want to see what the tab is so I can decide if I need to keep it open or not, but then I have to wait 30 seconds for it to refresh. It's very annoying. I am using Firefox for Mac.

more options

Noe: There is no "options" under the Firefox tab and no "Don't load tabs until selected" feature that I can find.

more options

Also I didn't find any sessionrestore preference in the about:config page.

more options

Which Firefox version are you using?

See:

more options

The sessionstore prefs now have a browser.sessionstore prefix.
You can use the search bar at the top of the about:config page to show them.

more options

OK, found it and changed it, it doesn't seem to have done anything.