Mozilla Firefox, one of the most popular browsers in the world, has a feature on smartphones that many users are unaware of: 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.
However, that does not mean that Firefox will close them for you. 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 that most of the time only takes up space and consumes performance on your smartphone.
Recovering disabled tabs
As explained in zdnet, the disabled tabs in the Firefox browser for smartphones 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, it will be relegated to the drawer of disabled tabs, where they will remain indefinitely.
These disabled tabs can be easily found through the Firefox tabs menu 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.
Firefox improvements to keep competing
Firefox is, and has been one of the most influential browsers on the Internet. With a long history behind it, it was, and still is the favorite choice of millions of users every day. Mobile convergence made Chrome rise miles ahead of the rest of browsers, but Mozilla Firefox remains one of the toughest competitors that the all-powerful Google faces.
In fact, many accuse Google of bad practices 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, another Google service, which intentionally functioned more erratically if you used Firefox instead of Chrome as a browser.
