On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Luca C. <luca1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'am trying to write an extension to avoid Chrome to shut down when
> the last tab is closed.

Ah interesting idea.

> My idea was, adding an event listener when a tab is closed, to check
> if it's the last tab and in that case to open a new one.
>
> The extension is working but only when the tab is not the last: if I
> set that when there are two remaining tabs are open a new one shall be
> created it's working fine, but when I trigger the creation of the new
> tab when the last one is closed, Chrome continues shutting down
> completely.
>
> My expectation was that Chrome evaluate if complete shutting down is
> needed only after the tab event handler, instead I suppose that this
> evaluation is done before. Do you think this is a bug?

It's not a bug, it is by design. One way you could do this is with a
content script - you can put an unload handler in each page and in it,
show an alert box confirming if the user would like to shut down.

- a

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