358252 - The close current tab shortcut does not work properly when only a single tab is open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 341067

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[jeremy.boone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Previously, in Firefox 1.5, if I had only one tab open and I pressed the shortcut to "close current tab" (CTRL-W) then Firefox would close, along with the tab.

Now, in Firefox 2.0, when I do this same action, the current tab is closed, then an empty tab is opened in its place. In other words, I cannot seem to close Firefox with the CTRL-W shortcut any longer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox.
2. Open two tabs at any websites.
3. Go to the second tab.
4. Press the keyboard shortcut, CTRL-W, to close the current tab.
5. Repeat step 4.

Actual Results:  
After step 5, the last tab is closed and a new, blank, tab is opened in its place.

Expected Results:  
When down to a single tab and CTRL-W is pressed I expect Firefox to exit, as it did in previous versions.

This problem did not occur in Firefox 1.5. I noticed it immediately after upgrading to Firefox 2.0.

Additionally, it only occurs when the option "Always show the tab bar" is enabled.

Comment 1

[Simon Bünzli]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 341067 ***