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I use Windows at the office and my work doesn't need me to have 300 tabs open at once. So I keep lauching and closing Firefox.

Start-up time matters, thanks.

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Why do you close it? I also use windows, never have more tabs than I can read their titles, and never close Firefox (except when some js crashes it, like browserstack.com)

Firefox is my browsing (err) browser (I like tag bookmarks too much).

I use chrome to develop with as I like their tools much better than firebug which, to me, is very slow in comparison. Chrome I close out relaunch semi-frequently (crtl-w spam, oops), but still keep it open, because why not?

Because when I close the one tab left, Firefox closes itself. Thanks to the fast launch time, I don't bother to keeping one open.

Note for anyone confused: this is not true on a Mac; in general it depends on what the OS's convention is.

Firefox doesn't do that on Windows either for me. I had to use a small extension by a friend to enable that.

browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab = false should fix that.

I close what I'm working on when I'm done working on it. I don't like clutter. Simple as that.

Of course, I also work in an operating environment that generally doesn't leave desktop programs running after I close the last window. So, it just happens naturally when I close a window.

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