How do I close tabs?

When I open a tab, there is no way to close it other than to use the arrow to go back through each page. In Help, I see there is an "x" for this which is not shown on my tool bar. Also, when I open more than one tab, the new tab takes the place of the tab already opened, instead of appearing beside it. Per Help, I should be able to use Ctrl W to close a tab, but this closes my screen instead. Thanks.

Set the pref browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false on the about:config page to prevent closing the last tab from closing the browser and make a close button appear if only one tab is open.
To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website. 
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

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On a Mac, how do I close tabs or windows where dialogs have popped up trying to download malware and you cannot close them?

On a Mac, how do I close tabs or windows where dialogs have popped up trying to download malware and you cannot close them? I think it's Ctrl+F4 on a PC. I would like to close just these tabs or windows instead of having to quit the whole firefox program.

The equivalent of Control+F4 is Command+W, I have not tried it but you may still get the alert boxes when closing a tab using this method.
The AlertCheck add-on can be used to block the infinite loops such as this - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/alertcheck - This functionality is built into Firefox 4.
An alternative method in Firefox 3.6.* is to temporarily turn off JavaScript. Open the Firefox preferences window, go to the Content panel and de-select the setting "Enable JavaScript" then click OK. You will then be able to close the tab, and can then re-enable JavaScript.

How do I close tabs when I am on web

How do I close tabs when I am on web

You probably tap the "+" instead of the "X"
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I am showing 9 tabs open and I cannot access other websites (they are grayed out when I clock on them). How do I close tabs?

I was working on calendar and opened too many tabs. I am showing 9 tabs open and it affects other sebsites I am now trying to access. The webpage is grayed out and non-accessible. I do not need all the tabs. How do I close them?

Try clearing Safari's cache : Settings > Safari > Clear Cache (and Clear History)
If that doesn't work then try closing Safari completely and then re-open it : from the home screen (i.e. not with Safari 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Safari app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
A third option is a reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.

In windows 7, firefox 4.0.1, How do you close tabs so they don't open every time I open firefox?

Can't close tabs so they don't open every time I open Firefox.

It is possible that there is a problem with the files sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
Delete the sessionstore.js file and possible sessionstore-##.js files with a number and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Deleting sessionstore.js will cause App Tabs and Tab Groups and open and closed (undo) tabs to get lost, so you will have to create them again (make a note or bookmark them).
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_profile_files_created

How do i close tabs on my android

It keeps telling me i have to close tabs to open a new one

You probably found this by now, but tap the numbered icon that looks like a stack of paper to the right of the address bar. This will show the tab thumbnails and you can close unneeded tabs there. More info: [[Using Tabs on Firefox for Android]].

How do I close tabs only by clicking a mouse button in Firefox 4?

In Firefox versions prior to 4.0.1. I used to be able to simply click on one of my middle mouse buttons to close the current tab. This feature no longer works in version 4. Now the mouse button closes all tabs. The only other ways I have found to close current tab is either move the cursor to the X on the tab and click it, or to use the keyboard shortcut ctrl+w. These methods are more cumbersome than simply clicking the middle mouse button from anywhere in the tab. How do I setup this feature in Firefox 4? Thanks.

Can you attach a screenshot?
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot and make sure that you do not exceed the maximum file size (1 MB).

How do i close tabs, it keeps telling me that i must close a tab to open a new tab.

Everytime I try to go to a new site, it tells me, I must close a tab to open up a new one

hello brianhoward, please refer to [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-tabs-firefox-android#w_where-are-my-tabs_2 Using Tabs on Firefox for Android]. thank you!

How to forcibly close tab, no question asked

I was looking for images of various PDAs on Google. One of the images obviously resided on a sketchy site, since I got a popup window saying that a I had a virus (or somesuch) and that I should scan my computer. I encountered a few windows in my tale of woe, so I can't recall whether this first one was an actual Windows window or one of those windows that are part of the webpage. When I tried to close the tab, I got two popups (I think they were real Windows windows). One asked for permission to download and exe file while another said that the web page wanted me to confirm that I actually wanted to navigate away from the page. The latter, I've seen before; the former, well that's obviously malware. However, I wasn't confident about any windows anymore. What if I clicked on the Cancel for downloading the exe, but it was a phony Cancel that actually downloaded the exe? What about the confirmation to navigate away, is there a way for malware designers to fake such a window so that if I confirm, it will actually do something else?
And what if the answers to both were "no" as far as anyone knows at present, but it is theoretically possible for the answer to be "yes" (which means that it will likely happen at some undetermined time in future, given the resourcefulness of people)? Because of this last possibilty, I figure that best possible way to close such a tab is for a browser to allow the user to tyranically close a tab without any questions or confirmations. I don't want to the firefox window because I have other tabs that want to retain. (I'm not even sure it would been allowed to go ahead in the presence of the popup windows). I don't quite recall, but I might have killed the firefox process in the task manager, but if I restart firefox and restore tabs, the bad tab will also be restored.
So is there a way to forcibly close a tab, no questions asked?

Set the Integer pref browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes to 0 on the about:config page to get the about:sessionrestore page immediately with the first restart after a crash has occurred or the Task Manager was used to close Firefox.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes
That will allow you to deselect the tab(s) that you do not want to reopen, but will allow to reopen other tabs.
See:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore#Restoring_a_session_after_a_crash
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes
You can add this line to user.js to set that pref.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/user.js_file
<pre><nowiki>user_pref("browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes", 0);</nowiki></pre>

How to add "Close Tab" to firefox's right click context menu?

william
Hongkong
2011-4-19

the-edmeister,
thankyou for your message
i know there are plenty of addons that can handle the job
i am in fact looking for whether there is a user setting capable of this
i found two other addons that can do the same thing.
https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-TW/firefox/addon/rights-to-close/
https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-TW/firefox/addon/closetab/
will check out the one you said in your message
'cause the context menu of my firefox is getting longer and longer !

With multiple tabs open, I use to click File, close tab---now close tab is missing and I exit out of Firefox completely. How do I get that choice back "close tab" in the "File" drop down? Thanks. George C.

The drop down "FILE" in the tool bar use to have a choice to "CLOSE TAB". This is now missing so when I have multiple tabs open and I want to close the most recent, I cannot. I then get warned that I will be closing multiple numbers of tabs, but there is no other choice.
How do I get the "CLOSE TAB" back in the drop down "FILE" in the tool bar

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]

How do I close all tabs at one time without closing Firefox completely?

How do I close all tabs at one time without closing Firefox completely?

Open a new window. Go to the other window with all the tab. Close it. You now only have that newly open window.
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On I-Mac, how can I close all tabs at the same time?

On I-Mac, how can I close all tabs at the same time?
I use Mozilla Firefox for internet.

Not an Apple product, have you visited:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-qu ickly

HT2490 the "X" to close tabs on my macbook is gone how do I get it back to work again

the "X" to close tabs on my macbook is gone how do I get it back to work again

If you lost sounds for keyboard clicks, games or other apps, email notifications and other notifications, system sounds may have been muted.
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Settings>General>Use Side Switch to: Mute System sounds. If this option is selected, the switch on the side of the iPad above the volume rocker will mute system sounds.
If you choose Lock Screen Rotation, then the switch locks the screen. If the screen is locked, you will see a lock icon in the upper right corner next to the battery indicator gauge.
If you have the side switch set to lock screen rotation then the system sound control is in the control center if you are running iOS 7. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to get to control center . Tap on the bell icon and system sounds will return.
If you are running iOS 5 or iOS 6, the system sound control is in the task bar at the bottom. Double tap the home button and swipe all the way to the right in the task bar to get to the speaker icon on the left side. Tap on that and the sounds will return.
If you have the side switch set to mute system sounds, then the screen lock can be accessed in the same manner as described above.
This support article from Apple explains how the side switch works.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4085

I used to have a close tab for exiting the current site I was on instead of closing all of firefox. How do I get it back?

I used to have a close tab for exiting the current site I was on instead of closing all of firefox. It was a red box with an x in it. How do I get it back?

Click in a blank space on a toolbar & open 'customize'. You'll find that there is a gray "x" (on my browser it's gray) that is for closing a tab. Drag it up to wherever you want on the toolbar & it should work fine.

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