Mobile search widget opens a new instance of firefox for quick searches

[mgk]

Implement a toggleable option to make the search widget on mobile open a separate instance dedicated for that search, or a tab that closes itself after closing the app. (meaning the firefox app needing to be for example, cleared from the open apps tab present on the majority of android phones)

This feature would be intended for quick searches that dont need to linger on open tabs, much like the current search widget for the google app on android.

[Jon]

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[hoppingllama]

Yes! I was hoping for exactly this function. When I use the widget it's for quick searches. I don't need it cluttering up my mozzila app tabs. 

[Naitsab_33]

Yup, I would like this feature for the exact same reasons as described.

Although there is a workaround that does some of that in a worse way.

You can have a variant of the widget that includes the button for a private tab, which will open a new search in a private tab, which does auto close when the app is properly closed (either manually or when android decides to remove its background process).

This does have the feature of almost-autoclosing tabs (and while they exist, they exist in the seperate private tab list, but it does mean, that you won't be logged in on any websites, though for most use cases of a quick search that should be fine.