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Dev channel update to 81.0.389.2 is live
Let's say I finish my work and quickly close 15 tabs with ctrl + W. I have to be careful not to close the last tab. If I accidentally close the browser, I then have to login to 1Password again which is super annoying. I tried to pin a tab and guess what, I can close it with ctrl + W as well, the browser will close and the pinned tab is gone after relaunching the Edge. That is completely unacceptable behavior for a modern browser.
1. Give us the option to NOT close the Edge with last tab, so if I press ctrl + W, the page in that tab will close and the tab is now showing the speed dial (new tab page). That is how Opera works and it's great.
2. If a tab is pinned, DO NOT close the browser. Ctrl + W should never close a pinned tab. This would be a nice "workaround".
Like I said, this behavior is unacceptable to me and it is basically the only reason I can't switch from Opera to Edge. Hopefully you can do something about this soon, I really like the new Edge otherwise.
I use this extension - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/last-tab/nggjcpipkefkgldicofgmealjndjnhba
I know about that extension, that's not the point. I'm using 3-5 extensions (trying to have a few as possible) and I'm not going to use one for such a basic feature.
I'm using 3-5 extensions (trying to have a few as possible) and I'm not going to use one for such a basic feature.amnesia I'd like to know more about why this feature that's easy to implement as an extension shouldn't be. Is it just a principled thing, like that the browser should do as much as it can natively? (Which also has counter-arguments that a browser should be as simple as possible.) Or is it because of fears of performance penalties? Personally, I find it very helpful that we now have access to the Chrome extension store since there are lots of features that can be implemented as extensions now instead of having to wait for us to get around to building them in natively.
