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Firefox’s tab controls are in Menu > Settings > General > Tabs. There you can choose whether Ctrl+Tab follows your recently viewed tabs or the tab-strip order, decide whether new tabs open in the foreground, and—on Windows—show previews for individual tabs on the taskbar.
Open Firefox’s tab settings
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Open the Firefox menu and select Settings.
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In the left navigation, select General, then find the Tabs section. In some versions, Mozilla labels the navigation item Tabs and browsing.
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Mozilla’s Tab preferences and settings page describes the controls below. Labels or navigation can vary across Firefox versions.
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In Tabs, select Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order to switch between tabs based on the order you viewed them. Clear the checkbox to move through tabs in the order they appear in the tab strip. With tab-strip order selected, Ctrl+Shift+Tab moves to the previous tab.
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- Recently used order: useful when you want to jump between the tabs you have just been working in.
- Tab-strip order: useful when you want the shortcut to follow the visible left-to-right arrangement of tabs.
Show one preview per tab or per Firefox window
On Windows, the Show tab previews in the Windows taskbar checkbox controls whether hovering over Firefox’s taskbar icon displays a separate preview for each open tab. Clear it if you prefer a single Firefox window preview instead of individual tab previews. This setting is Windows-specific.
Choose whether links opened in new tabs take focus
The setting When you open a link, image or media in a new tab, switch to it immediately controls whether Firefox switches to that tab as soon as it opens. Select it to open the new tab in the foreground; clear it to leave the tab in the background while you stay on the current page.
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This applies when opening a link in a new tab—for example, by middle-clicking, Ctrl-clicking, or using the context menu. It is separate from the Ctrl+Tab order setting.
Handle links that open new windows
Two other controls affect where links open, rather than how Ctrl+Tab works or how taskbar previews appear:
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- Open links in tabs instead of new windows controls links from other applications or pages that request a new window. A link requesting a specifically sized window may still open a separate window if that size is needed for the content to display correctly.
- Open links from apps next to your active tab controls where tabs opened from apps are placed.
These options cover different behaviors: whether a link opens in a tab or window, where an app link’s tab is placed, and whether a newly opened tab takes focus.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.Troubleshoot a particular link type taking focus
If a specific kind of link keeps switching to the new tab despite the visible setting, an older 2019 Mozilla Support community answer discusses advanced about:config preferences for regular links, diverted links, and bookmarks. The preferences named in that answer are browser.tabs.loadInBackground, browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground, and browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground. The forum guidance is historical, not a current official reference for every Firefox version; check the ordinary Settings control first. See Can I choose when to switch to new tab? before considering advanced changes.
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