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I followed the instructions for making an APP TAB and succeeded BUT everytime I close Firefox, the app tab disappears upon re-opening. Can someone help please? I held the control button plus I clicked and selected the "Pin..as app tab".

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As my question asks, I followed instructions for creating an APP TAB for my web mail account, and succeeded but each time I close and re-open Firefox, the app tab disappears. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong please?

As my question asks, I followed instructions for creating an APP TAB for my web mail account, and succeeded but each time I close and re-open Firefox, the app tab disappears. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong please?

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Make sure you close the window with the app tabs last. That way it's the first window to open when you restart Firefox.

Or when you restart Firefox, use Ctrl+Shift+N to open previously closed windows until you get to the one with the app tabs.

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Thanks but neither approach worked....In fact, while grateful for your reply...it does not answer my problem as posed. If an app tab is to work as designed, then I should not have to be sure to close that app tab last nor to use CTRL+SHIFT+N to make it work....but thank you... I appreciate the effort...any one else?

One of the frustrating things about Firefox and other web applications, is there seems to be no way to get answers....thanks for trying superkarn!

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For better or worse, I think it's part of the design for the app tabs to be window specific. I know my first reply didn't solve your problem, but that was one way that worked for me to get the app tabs back when I restarted Firefox. Also I noticed the tag for this post is Firefox 4. I've only tried it with Firefox 5.

I agree with you that the way it's working isn't ideal. For the time being, I've stopped using the app tabs. Maybe they'll fix/improve it soon.

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Hi superkarn...thank you again. I checked my version of Firefox and it is Firefox 5. thanks...if you hear anything, let me know!