{"id":268211,"date":"2023-12-27T05:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=322505"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:20:11","slug":"mozilla-firefox-saves-your-inactive-tabs-for-you-find-out-how-to-reactivate-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mozilla-firefox-saves-your-inactive-tabs-for-you-find-out-how-to-reactivate-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox saves your inactive tabs for you: find out how to reactivate them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mozilla Firefox, one of the most popular browsers in the world, has a feature on smartphones that many users are unaware of<\/strong>: it saves inactive tabs when they have not been used for a long time to save resources. In fact, if you have ever noticed that a tab has disappeared after several days, it is likely that this is the reason, since Firefox takes care of removing those less used tabs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, that does not mean that Firefox will close them for you<\/strong>. Mozilla’s browser chooses to move those less active tabs elsewhere so that resources are optimized as much as possible and so that, whenever you need it, you can recover that tab<\/strong> that most of the time only takes up space and consumes performance on your smartphone.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Recovering disabled tabs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As explained in zdnet<\/a>, the disabled tabs in the Firefox browser for smartphones<\/strong> respond to a specific element: reducing the amount of resources consumed by the browser when it is used. Therefore, if a tab is not used for more than 14 days<\/strong>, it will be relegated to the drawer of disabled tabs, where they will remain indefinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These disabled tabs can be easily found through the Firefox tabs menu<\/strong> for smartphones. Navigating through its interface, you will find the “disabled tabs” function, and there you will find again all those contents that had remained inactive for a long time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firefox improvements to keep competing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Firefox is, and has been one of the most influential browsers on the Internet<\/strong>. With a long history behind it, it was, and still is the favorite choice of millions of users every day<\/strong>. Mobile convergence made Chrome rise miles ahead of the rest of browsers, but Mozilla Firefox remains one of the toughest competitors<\/strong> that the all-powerful Google faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, many accuse Google of bad practices<\/strong> in an attempt to undermine the competition. An example of this was the complaint from users who experienced a delay in video playback when using YouTube<\/a>, another Google service, which intentionally functioned more erratically<\/strong> if you used Firefox instead of Chrome as a browser.<\/p>\n\n\n

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