Google Chrome closes all the tabs without notification-Exclusive review by TZI
Yes it’s true when you click close on the main window of Chrome, it closes all the opened tabs without intimating/notifying the user.
When compare to IE and Firefox which will give a warning/notification/confirmation window asking user to click Ok or Cancel to close all the opened tabs.But i observed in the Chrome that closing all the tabs with out user confirmation.
Here are the screenshot of comparision:
Google Chrome:Finally when it comes to new Google Chrome without asking user confirmation to close the tabs, Chrome closing all the opened tabs.
Internet Explorer: When you observe the IE there is a small alert window asking the user to Close Tabs or Cancel.
Firefox:Firefox is also asking user confirmation with the window “Confirm Close” with Close Tabs or Cancel buttons.
Closing Tabs- what’s the Importance of this closing tabs feature? Why should browser ask user to close the tabs?
This is all because some times by mistake users will click on main window close button insted of tab window close button and there may be chance of virus moving your mouse pointer to main window close button without user knowing where the mouse click happend.
And there are many possibilities that user may click on main window close button, so it is always better and feasible to have an alert window asking user to close all the tabs opened or not by giving an alert window with the options Close Tabs or Cancel.
This is what missing in Google Chrome compared to IE and Firefox.
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This is unbelievable fact mate.
Am using this chrome from last 3 days but never observed this thing.
Hi,
I have found this issue today.. Some sort of User friendly message must pop up before closing the form..Jus lke the Internet explorer.
If you Do accidentally close all tabs, just open Chrome again, and hit CTRL + SHIFT + T.
For me, that opened another chrome window with all my old tabs in tact.
Yes it is true. i found the same.
Good work.
Thanks dude……
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Yeah, this is really annoying with StrokeIt mouse gestures. The whole thing is always just poofing out on me.
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“and there may be chance of virus moving your mouse pointer to main window close button without user knowing”
Mate, if you have a virus in your system, it closing your browser window is the least of your worries.
@David,
Agree with you. But what i mean from that sentence is: When you move your mouse around the screen some times it stands on close button.This is what virus will Do. So for example: You want to click on some link on website but some times virus may take you mouse cursor to close button and you click will close all your tabs in chrome.
That is what i mean:)
Thanks for you Comment.
So what it doesn’t inform you the browser it self is still really amazing and a good thing to hit the net sense firefox
On the other side, since it’s first release, chrome has improved a lot most especially about its stability and performance. I remember during the first release, chrome on my computer keeps on terminating by itself.
@DayWongSong ,
No probs with that. But still as a user we expect it to give some sort of warning right.
I Do agree that still its a great browser
Yes, there were a few notable problems with Google chrome. But fortunately, they’ve made some improvements since you’ve written this post.
I will always use Firefox, but Chrome is its nice lightweight companion.
before I hate chrome but now, because of its performance, stability and ease of use, It became my default browser.
@Shirley,
Thanks for your opinion here dude.
I came across the same annoying problem and was looking for a solution to reopen the window (in my case, I clicked on the close button on chrome accidentally, as I was trying to close another application in the foreground) as I had a couple of important tabs that I didn’t bookmark and didn’t remember the way to navigate back.
However luckily, I was able to recover the last 10 tabs that were closed by using the “recently closed tabs”. I had more tabs than that in that window, but at least I recovered the important ones. I was glad that chrome remembered the tabs in the last window closed, but shame on it for not confirming while closing a window with multiple tabs.
Qunado eu clico na aba Do Chrome para altrnar abras ele fecha a aba que eu cliquei. Já passei antivírus, reiniciei, desfragmentei e nada. Tô começando a achar que é maior furada!
@Irha,
I came across the same situation many times yar.But apart from IE all the browsers has the feature of recovering last closed tabs.Even i reported this problem to Google directly.
Need to see how they fixes it in next releases.But really that feature should be there right?
@Daniela,
Sorry yar i even used translators to understand your comments.But i didn’t get full context of your comments.
Hope you will wright in english from next time
We all know that GC is a new browser however a confirmation before closing bazillion tabs should be the basic tab handling feature which GC is missing! and above all there is no built in session save/restore in GC! (like Kamilion / FireFoX2+ / Opera 9+ and/ or IE7 / 8RC1). this means that not only you will end up closing all the tabs coincidently and immediately plus also you won’t get them back in same order/position next time when you open GC. (Ya history is always there but now convenient that would be?)
I rank Google Chrome introductory browser who is missing lots of basic features!
Chrome has to Do million times better then now if they want to compete with Firefox/opera and yes of course IE7 ! (now IE8RC1 has been released and its LOADED with features)
@Yaseen,
Thats ture man..GC missing so many simple and basic features.
@Yaseen,
It is not always possible to recover all your tabs. Consider this scenario, you have two windows open in chrome, each with several tabs. You accidentally close one of the windows, so you lost several tabs at once. You could recover the first 10 (since chrome seems to remember only the last 10 tabs) by keep reopening the closed tabs. However, if you also end up closing the other window, when you restart, chrome would remember and reopen only the tabs in the second window, not the one in the window that you accidentally closed. This is a serious limitation, but you won’t probably hit it all that often.
@Irha,
100% correct you’re! Before to the release of chrome people told so many great things like fast and etc… blah blah..
But indeed these great features like warning before closing tabs,recovering last closed ones and all the makes the real difference to good and great products.
That’s true most especially if the website you are browsing is Ajax enabled. Though I haven’t tried it yet but i think, there will be some cases wherein GC can not really recover things you left on a certain website.
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Yep, being able to save sessions that include more than one group of windows is essential for me. If you have that, then a “warning” before closing would not be a problem.
Yes thats true….But it wouldn’t good to recover all the time right?
One thing I hate about chrome is, it’s pretty tied up with IE. UNlike firefox who runs totally independent with other browsers.
Pardon the language, but that was one fucking dumb omission by Google. It’s so blooming annoying! Hopefully the next version will sort that out
Yes, i’m not using Crome…It’s fast but lacking many basic features, which asked me to throw it away..
this is a fact but i find chrome much faster and comfortable than IE and firefox
Looks to be fast..But can’t be used as a professional browser with these basic drawbacks.
Why not? it’s true that chrome has a lot of missing features but I don’t think it can not be considered professional browser already.
two more drawbacks I noticed.
1. does not render CSS supported contents and publishes mostly in basic fonts
2. does not support popular WYSIWYG HTML editor like FCKEditor (a MUST Feature for Content Management Systems)
Ohh Great finding Kapil.
Thanks a lot for sharing these here..!
This is also one of my problems in browser rendering . Each browser has different ways to display the page that has Ajax scripts.
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I usually get irritate because Google Chrome close all tabs without warning. One more thing which is better in Firefox is that when we restart computer and open Firefox,it gives us option of restoring earlier session. This is very useful when we are reading some important stuff online and laptop gets hang.
the only thing I like about Chrome is its fast and has a big big window. Features still lacking tho and yes close all tabs without notification is a minus.
I agree with you ZXT there are still quite a no. of features lacking but for people who are not Technical that is quite fast and suffices all there needs.
I’m a web developer but I prefer chrome too. It’s fast and has all the basic things I need. Firefox latest version seems slower than their previous releases.
I agree with you Chrome is much faster than Firefox. I think because Firefox has too many plugins while Chrome has none.
Plug ins depends on you, the user. If you don’t install a Firefox plug in then you don’t get it in your Firefox browser.
I just know that. Thank you dude! FF is still my favorite.
Yes Taufic, I agree 100%. Firefox is by far the best browser, followed by Safari in my opinion. I don’t think Chrome will ever be able to gain a reasonable market share.
I think the top 3 browsers are
1. FireFox
2. IE
3. Chrome
But chrome only entered this arena about a year ago only and now it’s on the 3rd position.
The problem with Chrome is it’s settings (cookies and everything) are based on what you have in your IE.
Once you are used to it it would be easy to use chorme, and it is really lightweight as compare to other all browsers balzingly fast.
I agree with you Ruchi, its fast but it got less feature than IE and Mozilla. Sometimes you wish you can get more from Chrome.
Firefox is by far the best..Chrome cos its fast does not become the best browser..Its lacking many features you rightly pointed out one of them..recently i came across post regarding lack of features in labnol.
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I never noticed this too. Lax,you are very observant. Thanks for sharing.
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I stopped using Chrome for about a month now. I’m sticking with Firefox and IE.
Google chrome has solved the problem…
I stopped using Chrome for about a month now.
Yeah, this is really annoying with StrokeIt mouse gestures. The whole thing is always just poofing out on me.
Yes it is true. i found the same.
Good work.
Once you are used to it it would be easy to use chorme, and it is really lightweight as compare to other all browsers balzingly fast.
but i found google chrome more friendly.because my firefox sometimes hang..and some application in Facebook not working in firefox
Yeah, this is really annoying with StrokeIt mouse gestures. The whole thing is always just poofing out on me.
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Yes, now can you actually get a warning in Chrome browser before closing multiple tabs. Hit on below link for more details.
http://jaxov.com/2010/02/how-to-get-warned-before-closing-multiple-tabs-in-google-chrome/
Why don’t they simply copy the best of Firefox? So, they’ll have the best browser in the world.