Open Bug 1239323 Opened 10 years ago Updated 5 months ago

ctrl+w sometimes closes browser

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Version:
45 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: maxim.minchuk, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 Build ID: 20151222004010 Steps to reproduce: I have 13 opened tabs and 5 pined tabs. Pressed ctrl+w in opened tab. Actual results: Sometimes browser closing with all opened tabs. Expected results: Closed tab
OS: Unspecified → Windows 7
Hardware: Unspecified → x86
Hardware: x86 → x86_64
Hardware: x86_64 → x86
Component: Untriaged → Keyboard Navigation

I can confirm this issue in Firefox 76.0.1 on a Linux system. It is inconsistent. It happened last a few minutes ago. Ten tabs were open in the window. I tapped ctrl+w to close the tab; the window closed instead.

Severity: normal → S3

I've experienced this behaviour twice today with Firefox 141.0 on Windows 11 x86_64.

In neither case did the "Close N tabs?" warning appear, and that warning does appear when pressing ctrl+shift+w, so it's not an accidental keypress.

In the second instance, the closed window did not appear in the "History > Recently closed windows" menu, though selecting "Reopen all windows" from that menu did reopen the incorrectly closed window with all tabs.

Happened to me just now on 141.0.3 (64-bit). Can confirm it wasn't a mistake on my end because I had downloads running and each time I'd try to close a tab it'd warn me that I'm about to exit Firefox and that'll stop the downloads. This warning saved me a few times. The issue is gone after ctrl+w caused the entire window to close, now it just closes tabs.

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