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How do I stop tab spam? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm dying to find a way to stop Firefox on android from creating new tabs every time I use it. Why does it create a new tab when I open the app? Why won't the tabs ever go away even though I set it to delete them every day? Why is 'every day' the lowest setting to remove them automatically and not when I close the app?

I'm not seeing anything in the settings. I hate having extra tabs open. They're completely useless to me. Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does it create a new tab when I open the app?

Settings -> Homepage -> Opening screen

I think you may need to change this to last tab or homepage after 4 hours of inactivity.

Why is 'every day' the lowest setting to remove them automatically and not when I close the app?

I'm not seeing anything in the settings. I hate having extra tabs open. They're completely useless to me. Does anyone have suggestions?

I'm less helpful here :(, I manually close them and like to leave tabs open for ages sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, trying the last tab setting now. Thanks.
Sucks though I did like the home page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think opening a new tab should default to the home page, but that might be another setting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With the last tab setting it just goes to the last store you were on when you closed the app.

I don't want to open new tabs. That's the entire thing I'm trying to avoid.