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App Switching Always Opens New Tabs | SO Obnoxious

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While using Mozilla Firefox browser on my iPad Pro, I often switch back and forth to different apps throughout my workday. The keyboard command shortcut I use is CMD+Tab to switch to different application windows.

The problem that I have is that every time I switch from a different application, BACK to Mozilla Firefox, instead of staying on the website/tab that I was on previously, it opens up a brand new tab. And I have to close the new tab out every single time just to back to the page I wanted to be at before.

In the settings, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to STOP the app from launching a new tab every single time I simply switch back to the application. It’s the most irritating function to have to constantly close out new tab windows.

While using Mozilla Firefox browser on my iPad Pro, I often switch back and forth to different apps throughout my workday. The keyboard command shortcut I use is CMD+Tab to switch to different application windows. The problem that I have is that every time I switch from a different application, BACK to Mozilla Firefox, instead of staying on the website/tab that I was on previously, it opens up a brand new tab. And I have to close the new tab out every single time just to back to the page I wanted to be at before. In the settings, I can’t for the life of me figure out how to STOP the app from launching a new tab every single time I simply switch back to the application. It’s the most irritating function to have to constantly close out new tab windows.

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…of course it would stand to reason that the minute I posted in the support forums, only THEN I would find a solutions somewhere. Go to the app settings, tap “Homepage” and in the Opening Screen section, select “Last Page” and make sure the “Homepage” option is not selected.

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…of course it would stand to reason that the minute I posted in the support forums, only THEN I would find a solutions somewhere. Go to the app settings, tap “Homepage” and in the Opening Screen section, select “Last Page” and make sure the “Homepage” option is not selected.

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Is this with Firefox on macOS ? since you mentioned CMD+Tab.

iOS is the mobile OS for iPhones and earlier iPads and newer ones use the similar iPadOS.

If on macOS then next time you have a question about desktop Firefox you should use https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/desktop/form