Pinned Tabs (or App Tabs) allow you to keep your favorite web apps, like Facebook and Gmail, open and just a click away. This article explains how to use them.
I just discovered that you can pin tabs, which means that they are always loaded when you open firefox. This is a game changer for me. Whenever I open firefox, all my most visited tabs are automatically loaded and there’s no loading time anymore. Of course I still need rules for cookie autodelete but it’s awesome!
However, they disappear and are not loaded anymore if you have multiple Firefox windows open and the window with the pinned tabs is not the last Firefox window one you close…
The pins are part of the window, so… You can access old closed windows through the history menu, which I believe works after starting a new session after quitting it.
It works great in combination with the keyboard shortcuts for opening the first, second, … eighth tab, which is Alt+1 (or +2, +3, etc.) for me, but I think is Ctrl or Cmd instead of Alt on other OS’s.
I just discovered that you can pin tabs, which means that they are always loaded when you open firefox. This is a game changer for me. Whenever I open firefox, all my most visited tabs are automatically loaded and there’s no loading time anymore. Of course I still need rules for cookie autodelete but it’s awesome!
e.g. you can create a shortcut for about:config
However, they disappear and are not loaded anymore if you have multiple Firefox windows open and the window with the pinned tabs is not the last Firefox window one you close…
A solution for this is to go to the menu and “Quit Firefox” or something like that. That closes all the windows at once, and they all come back
In case you didn’t know, you can restore windows under History–>Recently closed windows.
Yeah, I run into this sometimes. Just need to be careful to use
Ctrl-qto close all windows rather than closing them one-by-one.The pins are part of the window, so… You can access old closed windows through the history menu, which I believe works after starting a new session after quitting it.
That’s unfortunate. I’m running firefox as flatpak and the problem is not there
How strange. Thought this is a general issue or ‘feature’. Maybe you close it FF differently as me? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1291164
Good question, alt+F4 😅
It works great in combination with the keyboard shortcuts for opening the first, second, … eighth tab, which is Alt+1 (or +2, +3, etc.) for me, but I think is Ctrl or Cmd instead of Alt on other OS’s.
nice! but I hate that I cycle through tabs with CTRL and have to switch to Alt for pins.
Lovely feature, been using it for years 👌 I have my calendar, email, homeassistant and zabbix pinned
They also don’t move when the normal tab bar becomes scrollable due to too many tabs open, which is pretty neat IMO