462781 - "Recently closed tabs" should include recently closed windows; or undo option for closed windows.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 394759

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Timothy Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3

If I accidentally close a tab, I can find it again by going to History >> Recently Closed Tabs.  Very nice.  However, if I accidentally close a window (which usually only happens when it has a single tab), I find that "Recently Closed Tabs" is grayed out.  So not only can I not restore the window, but I wouldn't be able to restore any tabs closed earlier.  Note that usually, when I accidentally close a window, I don't actually know what I closed (because it was accidental), which is really frustrating, because then I have no idea what I lost.  If a user gets frustrated and confused, that's usually a sign of a UI that could be improved.  Moreover, all destructive actions should have some sort of undo; the Undo option does not apply to windows, which seems like a major oversight.

I suggest either adding recently closed windows to the "recently closed tabs" menu (particularly if that window had only one tab), or adding a "recently closed windows" option.


Reproducible: Always

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