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Well, I actually enjoy that feature, especially using mouse middle click to close tabs & browser. Why do you want browser to stay open when you are actually closing it?

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Because I'm not closing it. I'm closing the tab. Opening chrome takes a few seconds to open which is annoying when I want to quickly google something without loosing focus.

Ok, I understand.

But you can press ALT+D, type your google text, hit enter.

No need to close tab, no need to open home page, no need to move mouse.

The point is that I want to close my current tab - I'm done with it. I just don't want to close the whole browser - I want it hanging around with no tabs in it so that I don't have to take the time to launch it again. Like closing all files in an IDE or Photoshop.

Alt+D, Ctrl(/Cmd)+L, F6, many ways to skin that cat ;)

Just do Command+W, Command+T really fast on the last tab

Because I don't want to open a new browser window because I closed the last tab and there's no Close-other-tabs key binding, just a menu item, if I were to emulate the behavior by closing all other tabs, optionally clear history and navigating to somewhere else in the current (now solitary) tab.

Speaking of UI regressions, Chrome's text input fields hijack Ctrl-Shift-Del, so you have to leave those controls before you can use the existing and standard key binding to invoke the clear settings dialog. Opera has the same bug, but Vivaldi, maybe because the UI is written in HTML, doesn't hijack it and the keybinding works globally in Vivaldi.

Options are a possibility, you know. You don't need to give up the way you do things, just because someone else wants to do things in a different way. No need to get all defensive about it.

It's interesting, on phones closing the last tab in chrome/firefox does not quit the app.

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