490501 - Firefox closes when last tab is closed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 456405

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I found that this is one feature in beta 4 that i just cannot work with. I may even stay with the actual build (firefox 3) that is out right now because this feature i cannot stand. 

When you have one window left open and you Ctrl + F4 that tab it also closes down firefox, i really do not like that and would love to know if you guys can put it back to where once you close the last tab it goes to a white tab and leaves that open until you proceed to a site. Internet explorer does that last tab/closing thing and i cant believe ff is doing what they do :/ that is the omly thing i dont like and to me that is a major bug, can you fix it now?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up a tab
2. Ctrl + F4 that tab
3. Everything closes :|
Actual Results:  
Firefox go bye bye and i have to open up a new one.


Please fix it... now.

Comment 1

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

You can change this in about:config. It's "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab", set it to false and you'll have the behavior you like.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

bug456382#c42

Comment 4

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hmmm that line "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab" wasn't in the config file, and im just gonna ignore these duplicate posts because they are striked out? and i dont know if this issue was addressed. so any ideas?

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> and im just gonna ignore these duplicate posts because they are striked out?

They are struck through because they are resolved.