I'm used to this way from firefox, and it is incredebly annoying. Is there a way to disable that behaviour in Chrome as well (when one tab is open, and you click C-w, it will close the browser as well) ?
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I looked around a bit and it seems the option to disable this does not exist. So this is not exactly the answer to disable this feature, but you can:-
-Use ctrl + tab and to move forward through the tabs of chrome
-Use ctrl + shift + tab to move back through the tabs of chrome
-Use ctrl + <tab no:> (eg : ctrl + 5 for the 5th tab) to jump to a tab in chrome
If you do get a hang of these shorcut keys (I know I did) you will never have the problem of pulling chrome tabs out of the tabs list.
-Oh and using ctrl + w closes a tab
-using ctrl + t opens a new tab and
-the F6 function key takes you to the omnibox. (address bar)
Chrome has no native keyboard shortcut for this, but there's an extension you can use:
Recent Tabs (Chrome Web Store)
Features
You can specify any keyboard shortcut you like (default: Ctrl + Q).
You can configure it to
show a list of the most recent tabs (much like Alt + Tab).
toggle between the last 2 tabs.
whenever you press the keyboard shortcut.
Best Answer
I get this a lot as well, but I fear that it's working "as intended".
From Google Chrome Help:
The comment in the question made me try something:
if you have multiple windows of Chrome open and you accidently kill one of them with your Ctrl+W-ing, you can restore the window by hitting Ctrl+Shift+T.
I haven't been able to test if this also works if you close all windows and have to launch Chrome again