Instead, it will stop the page from loading. If you tap it, it will not close the tab. The cross button you see while a tab is loading is a part of the default Firefox UI. When you tap this button, the current tab will close.
Once the tab has finished loading you will see a close button right next to the dropdown button in the address bar. Once you’ve installed Tab Close Button, open a new tab in Firefox. While Firefox Android has never had add-ons that required you restart the browser, it’s a good idea to quit the app and open it again. Open Firefox on your phone and visit the Tab Close Button page. This add-on is for Firefox Android and not for the desktop version of the browser. Tab Close Button is a Firefox add-on that adds a close button to tabs in Firefox. It’s easy but inconvenient enough that users often just leave the tabs open until they have too many of them open. You can tap the button to close a tab, or swipe to close it. Here, each open tab is represented as a small window with a close button. This takes you to a multi-tasking view where you can open a new tab, and view all your current tabs. To close a tab, you have to tap the tabs icon at the top right. There are two ways to close a tab in Firefox Android.
