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→Pro: GEdit ctrl-w closes window unless it's the last one
* Clarity: Closing the tab and closing the window are two very different things - one means "I'm done with the current block of information, but this app is still useful to me", and the other means "this entire app is no longer of any use to me" - they are conceptually different things. At the moment this is being muddied by having the meaning of Ctrl-W change between these two things, depending on context.
* Easier to close all tabs without closing the browser (by holding Ctrl+W).
* Firefox supports multiwindow tabless browsing; ctrl-w closing the document but not the window is consistent with applications such as MS Office 2000 and GEdit (GNOME text editor; it will actually close a window with ctrl-W, but not the last window).
* Currently, when I'm done with a tab, I cannot always safely press Ctrl+W, and assume that the right thing will happen (the tab will close, but the window will stay open). As I have to press a different shortcut to close a tab when it is the only one left, I sometimes accidentally press the Ctrl-W shortcut without realizing that it will close the window.
* Blanking a tab is a useful action if you browse in single-window-mode (as the window is long-lived, whereas the tab is disposable - so we want the window to stick around, but need a way of clearing the content from the last tab when we are done with it, without closing the window)
