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When I click the red X in the upper right hand corner of a Fire Fox screen , the choice I get is to clsoe multiple tabs or cancel the activity. How can I close just one tab?

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I often would like to just go back 1 or 2 screens or 1 or two taabs but I am not given that choice and I have to start Fire3fox over again. When I'm in this dilema, the black back arrow is greyed out in upper left of screen.

I often would like to just go back 1 or 2 screens or 1 or two taabs but I am not given that choice and I have to start Fire3fox over again. When I'm in this dilema, the black back arrow is greyed out in upper left of screen.

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Thanks for the help! It solved it for me. I added the Backward Forward History Drop drop-down as well.

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The tab you are on will show a cross, click that to close it. When you wish to exit firefox itself do not use the system cross on the top right of the window

  • use the firefox menu Firefox Button -> [] exit

The back & forward button will show a list of previous tabs if you right click it or pull it down with the mouse.

See also http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/central <-- clickable link --

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The arrow to open the tab history of the Back and Forward buttons has been removed in Firefox 4 and later.

Use one of these methods to open the tab history list:

  • Right click on the Back or Forward button
  • Hold down the left mouse button on the enabled Back or Forward button until the list opens

You can look at this extension:

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Thanks for the help! It solved it for me. I added the Backward Forward History Drop drop-down as well.

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Glad we helped.