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I wish Chrome would adopt Vivaldi's and Opera's feature to not close the window if you're closing the last tab. This works nicely in Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi,
by cm3 10y ago
I wish Chrome would adopt Vivaldi's and Opera's feature to not close the window if you're closing the last tab. This works nicely in Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi, and I always accidentally close Chrome. I've seen Chrome extensions for this, but they don't do this properly and take up considerable memory for something that should be a core feature.
- jve 10y agoWell, I actually enjoy that feature, especially using mouse middle click to close tabs & browser. Why do you want browser to stay open when you are actually closing it?
- fdgdasfadsf 10y agoBecause I'm not closing it. I'm closing the tab. Opening chrome takes a few seconds to open which is annoying when I want to quickly google something without loosing focus.
- jve 10y agoOk, I understand. But you can press ALT+D, type your google text, hit enter. No need to close tab, no need to open home page, no need to move mouse.
- lmm 10y agoThe point is that I want to close my current tab - I'm done with it. I just don't want to close the whole browser - I want it hanging around with no tabs in it so that I don't have to take the time to launch it again. Like closing all files in an IDE or Photoshop.
- V-2 10y agoAlt+D, Ctrl(/Cmd)+L, F6, many ways to skin that cat ;)
- adambratt 10y agoJust do Command+W, Command+T really fast on the last tab
- PudgePacket 10y agoIt's interesting, on phones closing the last tab in chrome/firefox does not quit the app.
- cm3 10y agoBecause I don't want to open a new browser window because I closed the last tab and there's no Close-other-tabs key binding, just a menu item, if I were to emulate the behavior by closing all other tabs, optionally clear history and navigating to somewhere else in the current (now solitary) tab.
- cm3 10y agoSpeaking of UI regressions, Chrome's text input fields hijack Ctrl-Shift-Del, so you have to leave those controls before you can use the existing and standard key binding to invoke the clear settings dialog. Opera has the same bug, but Vivaldi, maybe because the UI is written in HTML, doesn't hijack it and the keybinding works globally in Vivaldi.
- Sylos 10y agoOptions are a possibility, you know. You don't need to give up the way you do things, just because someone else wants to do things in a different way. No need to get all defensive about it.