1627159 - Selecting multiple tabs and clicking the close button of any selected tab closes all selected tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1608606

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect, P5)

Description

[thomas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Tab menu: Select All Tabs
• Tab menu: Reload tabs
• Close a not selected tabs that is reloading

Actual results:

• Crash (firefox is closed)
• "about:crashes" doesn't list the crash that just happened

Expected results:

The tab should have been closed without crashing.

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Selecting multiple tabs and clicking the close button of any selected tab closes all selected tabs. This might be intended behavior.

Comment 2

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Yes, this is intended behavior. Creating a selection of tabs and closing one of the tabs in the selection should close all selected tabs.

I guess if all tabs are closed using this behavior we could open a new blank tab and keep Firefox open?

Comment 3

[Kestrel]

According to Bug 1578131 Comment 2 it is not intended behavior and is tracked by Bug 1608606.

Setting browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false ensures the window and Firefox itself remains open when all tabs are closed.

Comment 4

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

(In reply to Kestrel from comment #3)

According to Bug 1578131 Comment 2 it is not intended behavior and is tracked by Bug 1608606.

Setting browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false ensures the window and Firefox itself remains open when all tabs are closed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1608606 ***

Thank you for finding that. My comment 2 above is wrong for mouse clicks on the X button of a tab in the selection, but is still correct for keyboard Ctrl/Cmd+W presses. It is a bit confusing to do different things based on event source (mouse vs keyboard) but we're trying to match parity here.