My tabs close unrequested.
I have a problem where my tabs sometimes abruptly, seemingly randomly, close. I couldn't find anything about this specific problem. I don't know if it's the computer thinking I'm moving the mouse in a way that simulates a touchscreen command to close the tab, but in any event I don't have a touchscreen and don't want my tabs closing without my specifically clicking on the X to close them. Does anyone know what could cause this and what I can do about it?
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Does only the currently selected tab close or does Firefox close as well?
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cor-el said
Does only the currently selected tab close or does Firefox close as well?
Neither, actually. It's always a tab I don't have selected at the time.
Safe mode doesn't find anything; I'm trying fixing my Flash installation. Thanks.
What was in that tab, or does it happen with anything?
FredMcD said
What was in that tab, or does it happen with anything?
It happens with any tab, completely at random--it always happens when I'm doing something though, I don't go away from my keyboard and come back to fewer tabs than before I stood up. It really seems like the browser is parsing my finger movements on the keyboard or my mouse movements to translate to hitting the X to close a tab.
What I mean was; is it the same web page that disappears? Can you tell how long that tab was open before it disappears?
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FredMcD said
What I mean was; is it the same web page that disappears? Can you tell how long that tab was open before it disappears?
Right, I understood the question. No, it can happen to any webpage I go to. Time seems to be random, sometimes minutes, sometimes hours.
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You probably are familiar with "Undo Close Tab" on the right-click menu of another tab (or Ctrl+Shift+t), so you could recover these tabs when you see them closing. But if you don't see it, you might miss it...
This is an odd problem because there isn't a keyboard shortcut to close a random inactive tab, and if you aren't moving the mouse pointer over a tab, then neither a direct click on the X or a middle-click (scroll wheel click) should be perceived as hitting the tab.
Sometimes a site will launch a new tab using a specific name (rather than just "blank new tab"). This enables the "parent" page to retain more control over the "child" page and potentially close it at some point. But I'm not sure why it would. Pages opened by a script also can close themselves, but that seldom occurs at random.
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