Hmmm, did you really use that feature before in ff? Because it had actually never been this way. The first time this comes up is in the 3.5 series. I tried those installations: WinXP with ff 3.0.13 intrepid with ff 3.0.11 ... canonical 1.0 intrepid with ff 3.0.13 ... canoncial 1.0 karmic-alpha4 with ff 3.5.2...canonical 1.0 (I don't know what the canonical variants do, but they are always given as 1.0)
All versions have a CTRL-W to close the active tab, and all versions have CTRL-Shift-W to close the active ff window. The Ubuntu versions all also have CTRL-Q for Quit - Win does not have this - which, as far as I can see, does the very same thing as CTRL-Shift-W. All versions ff3.0 on win and ubuntu do NOT close the program on CTRL-W when only one tab is open, but ff3.5 does. You can see it in the attached screenshot-clips that ff3.5 has a different behaviour: With two tabs open the active one has that red square w. white cross, which you can click to close the tab. With only one tab open it does NOT have the red square, and the only way to close it is to close the program! This is counter intuitive. Imagine it were to happen on an editor when you were programming, which can have multiple files open, but forces you to shut down the program in order to clear all files of a project. Or imagine it WORD or EXCEL were behaving this way. In a browser I might want to close a tab so that a cookie is cleared (in banking application and other), but continue using the browser to do other work. When I have three commands available (CTRL-W, -Shift-W, -Q) why must all three do the same? As I mentioned, on a little and slow netbook closing a tab is reasonably fast, but having to restart the browser is quite annoying! This change has worsened the usability of ff. ** Attachment added: "ff3.5 with two tabs open" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30333920/karmic-a4_ff3.5.2-canonical1.0.png -- [ubuntu karmic] firefox incorrectly closes on CTRL-W https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413166 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
