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When I click the close button on Google Chrome, it closes all tabs instead of exiting and remembering the open tabs on next launch. Any way to fix this ?
I expect the X button to close the app.
I can only do that if I select quit (from menu or by keyboard shortcut).
If you watch the File menu, you can see ⌘W changes depending on the number of open tabs. If there are multiple, it's "Close Tab", if there is one (not counting the pinned), it's "Close Window".
There is a workaround! You can overwrite ⌘W to always execute "Close Tab".
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts
Add a Shortcut for the application "Safari", menu item "Close Tab", shortcut ⌘w.
If you're not using English in Safari, lookup the exact name of the menu item for closing a tab. In the Dutch version of Safari, the menu item is called "Sluit tabblad".
In the most recent version of Google Chrome (currently on version 55.0.2883.79) has actually gone a long way to resolving this problem. There is now a Windows-like button to the right of the tabs (and the new tab button) that now displays a scrolling page of tab thumbnails.
Tapping that button results in a page of thumbnails representing the open tabs (you can swipe left/right to show Incognito Tabs and other devices that you are logged in to). However, the first few times I did this, only a few of the tabs were represented by thumbnails. It either took a bit of time or some navigating between the tabs for the remaining thumbnails to display...
I had amassed in excess of 111 tabs (rough count of 37 lines of 3 tabs)! Some tabs were seriously old! Chrome itself worked perfectly OK with this number of tabs (I think the tabs just go to sleep as navigating back to them triggers a full reload), but scrolling through this long list of thumbnails the first time was a bit jerky on an iPad Air 2.
Best Answer
That is the way most apps behave on Mac OS X.
The red x button in the corner of the screen closes the window, while choosing
Quitfrom the menu or clicking Command+Q will close the app.There is no way to "fix this" because that is the way the app is meant to behave.