We're calling on all EU-based Mozillians with iOS or iPadOS devices to help us monitor Apple’s new browser choice screens. Join the effort to hold Big Tech to account!

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.

Avatar for Username

Buscar en Ayuda

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

Este tema ha sido archivado. Haz una nueva pregunta si necesitas ayuda.

when i closed a new tab, i want to go back to my previous tab, how to set this?

  • 2 respuestas
  • 2 tienen este problema
  • 1 visita
  • Última respuesta de cor-el

hudibali
hudibali
more options

everytime i open my facebook, i often click a news in it, and a new tab automatically appear with that news. when i finished reading that news and i closed the tab, it does not go back to my facebook tab, it goes to other tab. my friends tag me many articles and news everyday, and i have to click back my facebook tab manually many times. it's so sad. what i want is: when i close a new tab, i want to go back to my previous active tab automatically. how can i set this in firefox? please send the answer to hxxxxxxx@yahoo.com


edited email as nobody here provides email support and to minimize spam bots from getting it.

everytime i open my facebook, i often click a news in it, and a new tab automatically appear with that news. when i finished reading that news and i closed the tab, it does not go back to my facebook tab, it goes to other tab. my friends tag me many articles and news everyday, and i have to click back my facebook tab manually many times. it's so sad. what i want is: when i close a new tab, i want to go back to my previous active tab automatically. how can i set this in firefox? please send the answer to hxxxxxxx@yahoo.com edited email as nobody here provides email support and to minimize spam bots from getting it.

Modificadas por James el

Todas las respuestas (2)

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

This is what I see. Is this also what you see?

Firefox will open the new tab for "related" content (related tab) immediately adjacent to the tab containing the link (source tab).

If you haven't opened any other new tabs or viewed any other existing tabs before closing that related tab, when you close it, Firefox makes the source tab active again.

But if you so much as looked at another tab, Firefox loses the behavior you want and when you close the tab, assuming it was not the last tab, it shows the tab to the right instead of the source tab.

Note: there are many add-ons which change how tabs work in Firefox, so I'm only described the factory default behavior. If you were using an extension to change how tabs work, maybe it has stopped working correctly?

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

You can look at the browser.tabs.selectOwnerOnClose pref on the about:config page as that is the only way to affect what tab gets selected if you close a tab.