Comment #69 on issue 13 by [email protected]: Closing last tab also closes window http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=13
There are a lot of special case behaviors implemented, but the most complex they are, the harder it is for people to understand them, so this minimize on last-tab-close behavior seems like a stretch. The main point is that closing a tab must not close the browser, just like closing the last application does not shutdown the OS. The same thing with VC++, when the last file is closed, or the last project, or solution. VC does not close. The special case comes from the what do we do when the browser is to get zero tabs: Either we simply support that case or we have to provide a blank tab. It seems that a blank tab is more useful than zero tabs and does not had much overhead, so I feel this is the preferred solution. We already have a single tab workaround for dragging one. IE simply removes the close button from the last tab. Yet, a close button which clears out the last tab (as is done in Firefox and Seamonkey) is useful when the user feels one starts a new 'browsing-task' since it clears the tab's history. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
