ctrl-w on last tab closes firefox

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Status

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Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Reported:
2 years ago
Modified:
2 years ago

People

(Reporter: josephj, Unassigned)

Tracking

Version:
Trunk
Points:
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Description

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2 years ago 
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.138 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.8.770.54

Steps to reproduce:

Press Ctrl-W on last tab


Actual results:

Firefox closes


Expected results:

It should go to the home page or about:blank.

There are several similar bugs to this that seem to have been fixed in Firefox 2 or 3.
This is Firefox 52.0.2 64 bit on Linux - kubuntu 16.04

Comment 1

•
2 years ago 
You can go to "about:config" and change "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab" to false.
Closing as WORKSFORME.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Last Resolved: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
(Reporter)

Comment 2

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2 years ago 
Thank you. That works. Sorry for the bug report.
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