I want my browser app to start fresh when I open it, with no tabs open (or just one blank one). I am almost never interested in what I was doing the last time I had the browser open, so having all my previous tabs download their content again is annoying and slow. The conventional solution is to always remember to close one's tabs before closing the browser app, but that also seems like unnecessary work (and I often forget to do it and then groan the next time I open it). On my PC, both Firefox and Chrome can be set to start with only a blank page, not the tabs from last time - I want that same behavior on my phone.
I'm not picky about what browser I use on my phone. Since Android is Google, I figured that Chrome would be most likely to integrate smoothly with the OS, but it doesn't appear to have a way to configure it to not keep its tabs when closed. Firefox is my favorite PC browser, so it's also a logical choice for me, and I thought I was in luck when I saw that it has a setting called "Tab Queue" that says, "Save links until the next time you open Firefox". But even with that setting off, the tabs are still preserved - is that a bug, or something I don't understand? I thought, "Hmm, perhaps closing the app in the list of apps doesn't really close it," but rebooting the phone didn't even solve it - the tabs still came back! (If it matters, I have Android 7.0 on a Moto G4.)
Does anyone know how I can get my wish?
I'm not picky about what browser I use on my phone. Since Android is Google, I figured that Chrome would be most likely to integrate smoothly with the OS, but it doesn't appear to have a way to configure it to not keep its tabs when closed. Firefox is my favorite PC browser, so it's also a logical choice for me, and I thought I was in luck when I saw that it has a setting called "Tab Queue" that says, "Save links until the next time you open Firefox". But even with that setting off, the tabs are still preserved - is that a bug, or something I don't understand? I thought, "Hmm, perhaps closing the app in the list of apps doesn't really close it," but rebooting the phone didn't even solve it - the tabs still came back! (If it matters, I have Android 7.0 on a Moto G4.)
Does anyone know how I can get my wish?