Ctrl W not close app: Difference between revisions

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→‎Con: There is no whole app closing shortcut; there is a tab closing shortcut; tabless browsing con point
(→‎Pro: C-w may, and S-C-w does close window; the app, only incidentally)
(→‎Con: There is no whole app closing shortcut; there is a tab closing shortcut; tabless browsing con point)
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* It's a change in the User Interface from how it was in Firefox 1.0 and 1.5.
* It's a change in the User Interface from how it was in Firefox 1.0 and 1.5.
* Closing a tab that creates a new blank tab is arguably not closing a tab.
* Closing a tab that creates a new blank tab is arguably not closing a tab.
* Users on UNIX systems wanting mouse keyboard bindings may want a key binding that uses two keys rather than 3 to close the app (although Alt-F4 may do this?)
* Users on UNIX systems wanting mouse keyboard bindings may want a key binding that uses two keys rather than 3 to close the window (although Alt-F4 may do this?)
* There's already a keyboard shortcut for closing the tab, if not the last one (ctrl-F4)
* Firefox supports multiwindow tabless browsing; ctrl-w not closing the window along with its directly contained document is inconsistent with IE6 and other tabless applications
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