Pinned tab should not all the URL to change

[LordSky]

When you pin a tab, in Firefox , you should not be able to change the url. Any links that navigate away from this tab, should open in a new tab (in the same container [if applicable]). It kind of defeats the purpose of having a pinned page/site.

The navigation bar should be grey out and if you hover over or click the navigation bar you should be notify as to why you cannot change the url for this tab. Or, if you do edit the url in the navigation bar to change then the tab should not be pinned anymore.

[Jon]

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[Anonymous]

I dont agree with your definition of a what a pinned tab is supposed to be/do/represent ... but maybe one of these can help you out a little.

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sticky-pinned-tabs/
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabloc/
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/origin-lock/

[Psykin]

I think instead of disallowing navigation within the pinned tab, a better option might be similar to what the Arc browser does:

1. Store the url when the tab was pinned in a state

2. Allow a button in the context window to reset the tab to the original pinned url

[blu]

On browser restart the pinned tabs should always default back to the originally pinned tab.

Having it change and stay changed on next launch is infuriating and one of the reasons I rarely use firefox over Arc.

[Mike_Paulo]

@blu- I totally agree that pinned tabs should default to the originally pinned address, and that they should stay pinned on restart (to me, those two things are basically what "pinned" means!). I use the add-on PersistentPin by Fabian Klemp and it works great (link is to its Firefox extension page).  It shouldn't take an add-on to fix it, but in the meantime I've found it's the best option.

[sidt]

Agree. I pin a tab for a reason (e.g. some important issue link that needs to be fixed next day etc, as sometimes we get swamped by emails and it might get missed). Moving away from the original URL looses the use case for which I pinned the tab originally.