124881 - When only one tab is open, trying to close the tab should load about:blank

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 109651

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Joonas]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020208
BuildID:    2002020803

When the "Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open" pref is unchecked and only
one tab is open, trying to close that tab does nothing. I think mozilla should
leave the current web page and show a blank tab instead (load about:blank).

The user tries to close the tab (leave the site) for a reason, and his or her
decision must be honoured.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. At Preferences/Navigator/Tabbed browsing, uncheck "Hide the tab bar when only
one tab is open"
2. Only have one tab open
3. Load a web site
4. To leave the site, try to close the tab

Actual Results:  Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  Because this is the last tab, and cannot actually be closed,
about:blank should be shown instead.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

I think that this bug should be dupped to bug 109651 where there's a request to
disable the close button on the last tab. 
If that bug gets fixed then it won't be possible to load about:blank by clicking
the button.

Comment 2

[Joonas]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109651 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v