351093 - Implement Firefox's undo close tab feature in SeaMonkey (previously "Closing last tab causes data loss - browsing history not kept.")

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 350416

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Jason Bassford]

With the fix for bug 156082, closing the last tab now loads a blank page.  However, in doing this, all browsing history is lost.  If you accidentally close the last tab, you can't click on Back to bring up the page you were just viewing.  This could be a big problem.  (Previously, the page didn't go away.)

If we're going to go to a blank page, we should at least keep browser history so that Back can be used to recover from accidental closure.

Over to Chris, at least for now, for his thoughts.

Comment 1

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

This is by design.  Closing the other n-1 tabs blew away their history, so the same thing should happen for the last tab.

For what it's worth, when bug 350416 is fixed (and it's something I'm hoping to have in time for 1.1b), closing tabs will no longer be serious dataloss.

Comment 2

[Jason Bassford]

Okay.  If we're going to treat the last tab exactly the same as the other tabs, then reopening this to turn it into a SeaMonkey specific request for Firefox's (bug 254021) undo close tab functionality, just as it's also been requested for Camino (bug 316458).

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

Doh!  I'm stupid.  I didn't fully read Chris' comments.  INVALID is still the wrong resolution.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 350416 ***