closeTab

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The BrowserApp object is only available to privileged code running on Firefox for Android, and is intended for use by Firefox for Android add-ons.

Summary

BrowserApp.closeTab(tab) closes the supplied tab. If no other tabs are open, then the tab is not closed.

Syntax

window.BrowserApp.closeTab(tab);

tab: The tab to close, represented as a Tab object.

Example

This code closes the currently selected tab:

window.BrowserApp.closeTab(window.BrowserApp.selectedTab);

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Last updated by: wbamberg, Jan 15, 2016, 10:48:50 AM

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closeTab

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