208993 - Clicking close on the window closes all tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 108973

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Timothy Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

This is a serious usability problem.  When a window is open with multiple tabs,
clicking "close" on the window closes the window (along with all tabs) without
warning you that you have multiple tabs open, and there's no option to enable
such a feature.  Opera has this feature, and I find it to be most useful.

Think this is silly?  Consider the following real scenario that's bitten me
enough that I've stopped using tabs:  You have a web page open which has a list
of links in it.  Each of the links you click opens another window, and so you
get used to closing the new window after you're done with it.  Unfortunately,
the designer of the page you're reading wasn't totally consistent, and one of
the links DOESN'T open a new window.  When you're done the what you think is the
new window (hey, you're tired and you just developed a habit which is something
that user interface designs are supposed to cater to!) and you close the window.
 What you don't realize until it's too late is that the window you just closed
is the original, and you just closed 5 other tabs along with it!

Why not look in this History, you say?  Because the tabs you had open have been
open for a week, and you've done a great deal of browsing since then.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open mutiple tabs
2.close the window
3.

Actual Results:  
The browser didn't warn me that I was about to close multiple tabs.

Expected Results:  
Warned me that I was about to close multiple tabs.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108973 ***