Closed Bug 948592 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Australis: Ctrl-W (windows) Should not close the browser

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
28 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 456405

People

(Reporter: codacodercodacoder, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20131112160018 Steps to reproduce: Press Ctrl-W Actual results: FF 28 closed without warning Expected results: Crickets, nada, nothing
Version: 25 Branch → 28 Branch
Holly will close the last tab with Ctrl+W, too. Why should Australis be differ?
Likely a dupe of bug 456405 unless there new information is provided.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Perhaps it is a dupe, not sure. Turns out, on Windows, Ctrl-W closes explorer.exe, but not Notepad. This behavior is new to me and, as far as I can establish, the key combo is not documented in the explorer UI anywhere. So the questions becomes, is Firefox doing the correct thing when Ctrl-W is triggered on the platform it is running on? I notice that the OP in the dupe report is on linux?
Although the reporter were using Linux, the platform of bug 456405 is All/All.
Let me ask this then, does Firefox subscribe to the principle of least surprise?
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