1582197 - Add an option to enable closing pinned tabs with cmd/ctrl+w

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Daniel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Pin a tab
2. Press ctrl/cmd+w

Actual results:

Pinned tabs are very hard to close. Many people don't want the tabs to be closed with ctrl+w for some reason, hence I suggest adding an option for former Chrome users do make their Firefox experience less frustrating.

Expected results:

Settings should contain an option to enable closing pinned tabs with a shortcut ctrl/cmd+w just like other browsers have.

Comment 1

[Xedret Belmont]

This is still an on-going issue, CTRL + W has a weird behavior when you are at a pinned tab, which instead of closing the current tab, takes you to the next one to the right. Having one to resort to grabbing the mouse, right clicking on the tab and selecting close tab on that context menu.

This is not only x10 more time consuming but also an unexpected thing to happen, behavior should be consistent between both tabs and pinned-tabs.