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===Behavior dependent on tab bar visibility===
Instead of creating yet-another-pref, why not have this behavior dependent on tab bar visibility: if you choose to not hide the tab bar with only one tab left, you stay in tabbed browsing mode and Ctrl+W blanks the tab - mimicking an MDI application; otherwise you leave tabbed browsing mode and Ctrl+W closes the window as other SDI applications are closed (e.g. MSIE and Windows Explorer). --[[User:Zeniko|zeniko]] 14:59, 14 Mar 2006 (PST)
After going through the pro/con points again, I think this might in fact be a surprisingly reasonable idea, as it seems the arguments are rooted in two distinct modes of usage:
* Firefox as document viewer: ...and what use is a blank document viewer, and why would I ever want to see one? Just because it happens to be able to contain multiple documents in one window, doesn't mean it should flaunt its empty document containers at me. Windows are cheap.
* Firefox as tabbed browsing shell: ...and who wants to accidentally lose their shell? That's like X crashing, or logging out automatically when all windows are closed, and recovery is a bunch of unwelcome work and takes time.
I suspect (well, hope) that the people in the latter category wouldn't mind an always-on tab bar any more than the taskbar, whereas people in the former category likely would. And, as you point out, the document close behavior would match the SDI/MDI flavor advertised by the visible UI when displaying a single document. One alternative, if feasible, would be two back-end prefs and one gui pref toggling both, for simplicity in gui prefs and tweakability in the advanced config ui. --[[User:Tuukka|Tuukka]] 14:04, 7 April 2006 (PDT)
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