Firefox Android: Add option to close current tab when hitting "Back" and returning to homepage

[kym_hill]

On the Android App, hitting the "back" button will eventually return you to the homepage. However, it leaves the current tab open.  It would be nice if there was an option to have the current tab close when "Back" returns you to the homepage.  I find that 90% of the time I dont want the tab anymore and have to manually close it.   This could be implemented as checkbox option in the "Customise Homepage" settings.

Another option would be to simply reuse the last tab when opening something from the homepage screen.

Either option would solve the tab accumulation problem.

[kym_hill]

Does anyone know why the fix was undone in 141? It was so good.

I expected it to re-appear but it hasn't...   😞

I also want the behavior the OP is requesting. Looks like it became the default in Firefox Android 140 and probably 139. I stopped having to manually close tabs that weren't closed by hitting back. Great!

However, 141 has reverted the change. Now I have orphan tabs clogging up my tabs list. When I hit back all the way through the history stack back to the home screen, then I do not want that tab sticking around on the last visited website!