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** ...The application doesn't necessarily close when the browser window closes. You could have other browser windows, download windows, etc open. You could also be on OS X where the app is still running without any windows present.
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* 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.
** ...but what if "I'm done with the current block of information, and the window is as useful as the documents it contains"? The proposal requires use of different keybindings case by case, when the same thing is meant.
** ...The application doesn't necessarily close when the browser window closes. You could have other browser windows, download windows, etc open. You could also be on OS X where the app is still running without any windows present.
* Easier to close all tabs without closing the browser (by holding Ctrl+W rather than Ctrl-F4).
* 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.
