Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"
Date: 00:19 on 16 Mar 2007
Jeremy Weathers wrote:
>> That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented behaviour
>> that the close-tab button always had: when there's only one tab
>> left, Ctrl-W closes the tab AND THEN OPENS A NEW ONE WITH THE
>> HOMEPAGE!! RAAAAHHH! DIE!! Die, dammit, and get outta my face!
>> Really, it's very hard to excite me past my usual "grumpy crank"
>> level of annoyance, but the past couple of months, even though I
>> only used Firefox 2 lightly (my main machine is still at 1.5.x),
>> the frustration caused by this deranged behaviour has driven me
>> batty.
> 
> 
> It doesn't help you, but the OS X version handles this correctly.

I thought that too, but its actually Tab Mix Plus.  In the TMP Preferences ->
Events -> Tab Closing you'll find "Do not close window when closing last tab
by hotkey" unchecked.

Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a tiny little
"close" button on a tiny little tab is?  X-Chat Aqua used to do this but they
sensible took it out.  Firefox used to do this but they unsensibly put it back
in!  Fortunately Tab Mix Plus can take it back out again (and configure it in
all sorts of interesting ways).  Yay extensible UI!  Boo dangerous defaults!

Its like putting a "self destruct" button on the right hand side of all the
tables in your house.  Carelessly put a cup down in the wrong spot and *boop*!
 Your table and cup disappear!  And the best part is, there's no undo!
(something else Tab Mix Plus fixes)  BAHAHAHAA, silly user!
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