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If it's intractable, maybe a preference would be a suitable compromise?
* 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.
==Should this be a preference?==
If finding a single behaviour that works for everyone is intractable, then perhaps it should a boolean preference between the current behaviour and the behaviour described above in the use-case?
===Pro having a pref===
* It would allow the user to select the best trade-off of the pros and cons above, at their discretion.
* There may be an element of the religious emacs-vs-vi / pro-life-versus-pro-choice debate to this: People who care tend to have a strong preference one way or the other, depending on their personal browsing style and which UI they think works best, and it may be that no amount of discussion will change that viewpoint.
===Con having a pref===
* It would introduce yet another preference, when the overall direction seems to be towards reducing the number of preferences.
