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Tweak Firefox 3.5 to keep running when you close all tabs
There's a setting tucked away in the recesses of Firefox 3.5's configuration options that will keep the browser running after you close the last tab. Instead of closing, Firefox will simply display a single blank tab.
Here's how it works. Type "about:config" into the location bar (without the quotation marks), and then finding the setting labeled "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab" (again, without the quotes) and double click that setting to change the value to false. That's it. Now when you close all your browser tabs Firefox will stay open.
[via Lifehacker]
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Subscribe to commentsWLJul 3rd 2009 2:42PM
this seems to be the default action for FF3.5 or at least its what happens for me without doing an editing to config settings
AlicanCJul 3rd 2009 3:00PM
DS saved another life. I was searching for this since I upgraded to 3.5.
mkoJul 3rd 2009 3:07PM
Would it be pointless to say this has been on Opera for quite some time if not since 1.0
JakurbJul 3rd 2009 4:43PM
Yes, it would. It makes no difference whether it had is first or not. Especially since I have had this same effect in Firefox for a long while despite not having tweaked anything. (I'm not sure what I did, but it must have been pretty simple. Maybe it's the "never hide the tab bar" option.)
RocketboyJul 5th 2009 8:42AM
Don't make the firefox fanboys mad by pointing out that, chances are, Opera did it first...
They get all touchy and denialy when you do.
FrancisJul 5th 2009 5:51PM
Wait, you mean you don't need to download an extension!?!? Let me clarify: this functionality is available in Firefox out-of-the-box? By god, it's a breakthrough in web browser design!
ronmosesJul 3rd 2009 4:53PM
I literally did this twice in the last ten minutes, then relaunched again and searched through the setting to find a way to keep the browser open. The next site I loaded was DS, and there was this article. Awesomeness.
Muffin_manJul 3rd 2009 5:20PM
I know this is off-topic but FF 3.5 is loading pages really slow for me and while loading it hangs. I can no longer just open a link and continue browsing whatever I was looking at because I have to wait for whatever it was I clicked to load.
Really disappointed with this update.
Dave ForsterJul 3rd 2009 5:45PM
I've been looking for the following setting in about:config but struggling... can anyone help out ?
browser.start.really.quickly.because.im.getting.a.bit.sick.now.you.take.too.long
Saint SeminoleJul 3rd 2009 9:17PM
This is one thing I *hate* about 3.5 -- Firefox never did this before. In the past, I always "closed" the last tab, leaving a blank tab. And, because I had SpeedDial installed, it would be there.
Now, with the above hack, it's still not back to pre-3.5 default behavior, because SpeedDial wouldn't load. I had to get *another* extension (NewTabURL) and set it to load SpeedDial.
Firefox sure didn't impress me with this one. If only there were another browser that was this customizable...
Bryan PriceJul 4th 2009 10:26AM
Already set. No clue as to WHEN that got set, but since it's bolded for me, I definitely changed it myself.
JamesJul 4th 2009 10:26AM
Um. Wasn't this an option in the Preferences way back in 2.x? Am I just hallucinating that?
AniruddhJul 4th 2009 10:26AM
But Cant we do that bu going under tools > Options > Tabs > and just select always show the tab bar
acmeJul 6th 2009 9:31AM
lol never even know that shortcut, i always used ctrl+f4