Ctrl W not close app: Difference between revisions

Ctrl W not close app (view source)

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 * There's already a keyboard shortcut for closing the window (SHIFT+CTRL+W).
 * Surprise: The current behaviour is often surprising - "Whoa! Where did my browser window just go?". New behaviour will not be surprising to the new user in this way.
-* It's currently in an extension (Tab Mix Plus, under "Events" tab -> option "Do not close window when closing last tab by hotkey"), so there is demand for this and it can be done on Firefox.
-* Non-intrusive: There was [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=195101 a patch] (now out of date) which nevertheless showed how to do this, and the changes required were small (2 Kb).
 * Precedent in other multi-tabbed browsers: This is how tab closing via Ctrl-W works in IE7, NetCaptor, and Opera, among others.
 * Clarity: Closing the tab and closing the window are two very different things - one means "I'm done with the current block of information, but this app is still useful to me", and the other means "this entire app is no longer of any use to me" - they are conceptually different things. At the moment this is being muddied by having the meaning of Ctrl-W change between these two things, depending on context.