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→Con: widget-centricity vs document-centricity mumbo-jumbo con point
* 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.
* 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.* The current document-centric ctrl-w behavior discards a window, as it does a tab, when the window no longer contains a document. The proposal makes the window widget "heavier" favoring it over the document concept; instead of the application getting out of the way when the user is done with the document, it demands that the user deal specifically with the window to close it with e.g. a different keybinding.
