Ctrl W not close app: Difference between revisions

* Firefox supports multiwindow tabless browsing; ctrl-w not closing the window along with its directly contained document is inconsistent with IE6 and other tabless applications.

* The current document-centric ctrl-w behavior discards a window, as it does a tab, when the window no longer contains a document. The proposal makes the window widget "heavier" favoring it over the document concept; instead of the application getting out of the way when the user is done with the document, it demands that the user deal specifically with the window to close it with e.g. a different keybinding.

* Currently, when I'm done with a document, I can safely press Ctrl+W, and the right thing will happen (the tab will close, or the window will close).  If I had to press a different shortcut to close a window, I'd sometimes accidentally press the shortcut to close a window without realizing that I had other tabs open.

* Blanking a tab isn't an especially useful action.