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Kindle Fire: Close All Open Silk Browser Tabs

If you have a lot of open tabs while browsing the web via the Kindle Fire Silk browser, you don’t have to close them individually. Here’s a tip on how to close them all at the same time.

If you have a lot of open tabs while browsing the web via the Kindle Fire Silk browser, you don’t have to close them individually. Here’s how to close them all at the same time.

Close All Open Browser Tabs on Kindle Fire

Here I have 10 different tabs open. Rather than close each one individually, I want to close them all at once. All you need to do is tap and hold the close button (X) on any of the open tabs. When you release your finger from the X on the tab a message will come up to close all tabs. Press it and all tabs will close.

Close all tabs Kindle Fire HD

The browser will stay open but return to the home page you set for it.

Silk browser home page

That’s it! And for more on the Silk browser and bookmarks make sure to check read our article about managing bookmarks on the Kindle Fire.

16 Comments

16 Comments

  1. Tom

    Can’t follow the directions for closing tabs from my kindle because there is no navigation arrow.

    • Bettye

      Can not close tabs per directions.

    • Tim

      me too, I have a fireHDX and this won’t work on it.

    • JERRY

      Close all open tabs of Silk browser of kindle browser by tapping on x of first tab. Then close all open tabs will appear. Tap on this tab and all open tabs will close

  2. Bettye

    Cannot close tabs

  3. Tim

    Same here. No “arrow”!!

  4. Cb

    Same here. Touch on tabs not recognizing!!!

    • Judy

      I can’t close all tabs. There us no x to click on

  5. Timk

    yep, it may work on a fire phone, but not the kindle fire HDX.

    • Tricia

      I have a kindle fire hdx as well, no arrow either. So what’s the solution. Open windows slow down my kindle.

  6. Frank Burns

    I had this problem as well with my Fire 7” bought just a few weeks ago. it was a real pain…until i ‘zoomed’ in by pinching the screen and then tapping on the ‘X’ Seemed to help enormously…

  7. Frank Burns

    What ‘navigation arrow to the left?’ Which Fire tablet have you got? Can’t be the new 7”…there’s NO navigation arrow at all. Explain please?

  8. Gary

    No arrow? Press on one of the x-es and hold. Close menus pops up.

    • Frank Burns

      Works fine if you have a ‘responsive’ screen…sadly at this price my Fire takes a lot of ‘tapping’ on the X to have any affect…I guess you pay a cheap price and live with the consequences…having said that it works pretty well for casual viewing and saves booting up my desk-top. I should have bought the Lenovo Tab 7”. My local retailer has it on sale for ten pound more than the Fire. and I believe it has ‘face recognition.’ What’s not to like?

  9. Gary

    I have cheapest Fire too. Repeated tapping works sometimes but holding on x works every time. Hold for one second and clear all tabs me u pops up.

  10. Valerie

    How do you keep your page open when following a recipe as it keeps closing and I have to start over again

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