

I can't help but feel that you imply a bookmark is a permanent tab, which it isn't. Let me know if you have any other questions! You may also hear the word "Favourites", it's the same concept. Next time instead of typing in the address, just go to your Bookmarks menu and click on the webpage. For example, if you press "Cmd+D" you can save the webpage address and it is stored in your Bookmarks. In this case, you want to navigate back to a webpage without typing in the address (URL). This image will help you understand what is a tab and the concept of a tab.Ī bookmark is just like a bookmark for reading books, you want to get back into the action quickly. From there, you can navigate to different webpages, hence each webpage is displayed in a single tab. For example, if you press "Cmd+T", you are opening new tabs. Read this answer in context 👍 1 All Replies (11)īasically, each webpage is displayed in a single tab in Firefox. No problem, I'm happy if I helped a bit ^-^ Source: Pinned Tabs - keep favorite websites open and just a click away This means if you have a lot of tab apps, you will use up your bandwidth faster because the tab app will always open to that webpage when Firefox starts. On the other hand, with the bookmark toolbar, the page is not yet loaded so when you click on the bookmark/shortcut, the page has to load.Tab apps also takes less space than the bookmark toolbar. With tab apps, your page is already loaded when Firefox starts up.Let me summarize the difference between tab apps and bookmark toolbar, most of which you stated already. Tab apps refers to making a permanent tab. Bookmarking refers to putting websites on your bookmark toolbar. Your context is correct, but technically it should be "tab apps". Because, you see, when I make a bookmark it looks like a tab. In reply 1, you mentioned the word "bookmarks." If it does, just go with the info that I confirmed above in this reply :) Let me add some more of my thoughts if you are interested. The bookmark toolbar and tab app accomplish the same thing (reply 2).The tab app is a permanent tab while the regular tab goes away when you log off (reply 1).

In that case, you are correct in both replies. I get what you are saying now and before!
