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I have been having this problem for the longest ever since the new version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser was released. It’s random, but sometimes my tabs will just straight up not close when I try to use the “x” button or the Window’s keyboard shortcut to close a tab, Ctrl + w. Sometimes I was unable to close any tabs at all! This has been going on for months and I’m not the only one who has been having this problem. Mozilla’s answer has been to uninstall each of your add-ons one by one until you figure out which one is causing the problem…no who wants to do that?
After searching through the forum I finally came across someone who posted a possible solution that thankfully worked for me. It seems that the add-on Invisible Hand was doing some invisible magic that prevented me from closing my tabs.
Hopefully this helps out many of you out there who’ve been having the same problem.
In the process, I also switched back to the Pale Moon browser. In a nutshell, it’s the same as Firefox except it runs 25% faster. It even ports over your bookmarks, add-ons, etc. from Firefox upon installation.
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6 Responses to “Firefox Tabs Won’t Close: Solved”
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I had this issue a while back and it struck me as bizarre as well. I usually keep InvisibleHand turned off unless I'm specifically shopping, so maybe that's why I haven't noticed an issue since.
As for Pale Moon, I'll have to check that out. I've never heard of that one before.
@Jared: I wish I known how to solve it earlier. Hope you had fun bringin' in the new year man!
This started yesterday. I /don’t / have InvisibleHand installed. Never heard of it…
Hmm, that’s the one app I came across that messed up my tabs. Maybe the update to the newest firefox is what caused your tabs to not close?
I just got this problem since installing the add-on Firebug…
Did it go away after uninstalling firebug? I have firebug as well and don’t have that issue. I feel like it’s something in firefox that the developers haven’t found yet. I had to either switch to Pale Moon or uninstall firefox all the way (profiles and all) and then reinstall it 🙁 More people have to have this issue than just us.