Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Firefox "tabs"?

I was "surfing" on Mozilla Firefox, which seems to be excellent - except for one odd characteristic: when I clicked on to the "X" in the upper right corner to close out on a site, I got a message that I was closing out "three tabs." When I did, everything was "wiped out" and I ended back at my "desk top." What is happening? How can I avoid it next time?

18 Answers

Relevance
  • alk99
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Have you got Firefox 1.5 or 2.0? if you have Firefox 2.0 each individual tab has a close button on it to close just the tab not the browser, If you do not see the close button on the tabs you may have a theme that does not support the close button, there are some that don't. If you don't have 2.0 I suggest downloading it. The regular red X in the upper right of the browser is to close the browser not the individual tabs. (to close each tab individually if they don't have the close button you must right click the tab and choose close tab) Hope this helps :)

    Source(s): BTDT ;)
  • 1 decade ago

    The Little X at Your Right Closes The Current Tab.

    The Bigger X at The Top Right Corner Closes ALL Tabs & The Whole Browser at Once...

  • 1 decade ago

    you can open multiple tabs in firefox. press control + t to open a new tab. then you can open a new site in that tab. makes it a lot easier than opening a new window. if you have mulitple tabs open, it prompts you to warn you that you have more than one tab open. about 1 inch below the X there is a smaller X that is used to close individual tabs.

  • 7 years ago

    Click on one tab at a time to close them

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 7 years ago

    I assume you have opened more tabs. When you click 'X' on the right top corner, you are actually closing the browser. Other you need to close each tabs separately. Hope it helps

  • Tom-SJ
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I always close individual tabs by putting the cursor on the tab I want to close, then right-click and choose Close Tab.

  • 1 decade ago

    when it asks you if you want to close 3 tabs, click cancel. there is a smaller "X" in the same row as the tabs.

    ~Brendon

  • 1 decade ago

    you can solve the problem by going into the settings on fox fire and turning off the tabs or you can use the smaller "x" when closing out your windows

    Source(s): hands-on
  • 1 decade ago

    u gotta press the x on the tab to erase the tab if u press the X on the upper right corner u erase everything and when that thnig that says "close all three tabs" just press cancel

  • 1 decade ago

    There is a smaller "x" down below the usual "x" on the top right. Click that and watch what happens.

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.