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How to stop the Firefox home tab from opening whenever I don't have any open tabs?

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gruizrincon
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Hi,

So everytime I start Firefox, there's an empty tab. Clicked on a link on Google's assistant while no tabs were open on Firefox? Well, now I got two open tabs, one with the link I wanted and a useless, empty one. I finish my search and try to close that tab, boom, a new one appears. I don't know if there's a setting to not have that tab open anymore. I would much prefer having a completely black screen over having to manage an extra tab, since I usually don't open my links directly on Firefox, but rather from other apps (Reddit, Google assistant, Gmail). Picture showing said tab attached.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, So everytime I start Firefox, there's an empty tab. Clicked on a link on Google's assistant while no tabs were open on Firefox? Well, now I got two open tabs, one with the link I wanted and a useless, empty one. I finish my search and try to close that tab, boom, a new one appears. I don't know if there's a setting to not have that tab open anymore. I would much prefer having a completely black screen over having to manage an extra tab, since I usually don't open my links directly on Firefox, but rather from other apps (Reddit, Google assistant, Gmail). Picture showing said tab attached. Thanks in advance!
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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If you do not restore tabs, Firefox for Android usually shows a tab with predefined content like Top Sites, Bookmarks, and/or History. Yours is completely blank? I don't know whether there is a way to display Firefox with zero tabs.

gruizrincon
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Hi,

It's indeed completely blank.

I disabled top sites and bookmarks, since I prefer not having to watch those everytime I open the browser. I guess that's why my tab is blank.

However, even if it weren't completely empty, I would rather not have it. I want to see only the tabs that I open intentionally, like on Chrome.

Paul
Paul
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Hi

As with Firefox on the desktop, there will always be one tab that is open, otherwise the browser would be closed.