Closing behavior of Last Tab

Closing behavior of Last Tab

Hi,

I've searched for almost three days now and I haven't found a proper solution for my problem.
When I have one instance of Opera opened and I close the last active tab I get back to Speed-Dial which is what I want it to do.

But as soon as I have a second instance open and I close the last active tab in this one, it just closes.
I've recently upgraded from 10.50 to 10.53 and now this option is missing.

Is there any possibility that I customize my Opera back to the behavior it had before?

The Option "Close last active Tab" is not what I want so please don't mention this. It closes the tab and leaves a blank window, not jumps back to Speed-Dial like in the "initial" Window.


I hope you can help me.


BlackEternity

I don't why that would have gotten switched in the upgrade, but the preference is at Preferences > Advanced > Tabs > Additional Tab Options > Allow window with no tabs. Or opera:config#UserPrefs|AllowEmptyWorkspace

Sorry but that's the option I said, I don't need because it's not the one that I had before.

The old behavior of Opera was like this:

One Instance open:
Ctrl + W closes Tabs as long as any are open. If the last Tab with a website closes, it jumps with this active Tab back to Speed-Dial (Just try it in the first instance of Opera you open).

Two or more Instances open:
Exactly the same behavior.
In Both instances, every tab is closed and if the last active website closes, it jumps back to the "empty tab" aka speed-dial because this is my default page.
And that worked in every instance. If I wanted to close it, I had to press Alt + F4 or click the X. Regular Window Style.


Now it looks like this:
One Instance open:
Exactly like before. Ctrl + W closes Tabs, last website closed opens up the Speed-Dial.

Two or more Instances open:
The first instance behaves as usual.
The other ones which are not "the primary" that was opened when I clicked on my Quicklaunch-Icon in the Taskbar close as soon as I close the last website.


It's absolutely annoying and not good for my productivity because when I close every Tab in an instance, I am able to quickly select a new page from my Speed-Dial or I can just type a new url. I know ... F8 does the magic, but I don't want to waste time.

For example: I have 4 Instances open.
1. Private Stuff
2. Monitoring-Pages for my work
3. Misc-Stuff for research
4. Actual Work
(The order is not the real. Just for example)

When I decide to close now my websites from the "Research-instance", I close everything with Ctrl + W. But the instance closes and I need to open Opera again, Press Ctrl + N, wait 2 seconds to let the new window open, minimize the other one (Windows XP with no Window-management ftw -.-) and open up the page I want.

Please, is there any possibility to be able to have the old behavior back?
I don't like this "Close everything with Ctrl + W". it's one reason why I hate Firefox.


BlackEternity

I got the same problem, when I close the last tab I want Opera to got to the "Speed Dial", it does however close the entire browser. Very annoying and I did not have the same problem before I upgraded.

How can I change the settings back?

Okay, I misunderstood what you said before. (I think I posted that the morning after I had been up all night, so I probably wasn't reading clearly.)

I skimmed the change logs and I didn't see anywhere that the last tab closing on extra windows should have changed. It's either a bug, not yet fixed in latest snapshot, or just a change that has been made intentionally. Either way I have no clue why it is the way it is.

This button should do the trick. It's not the best, but it does sort of fix the problem. Just click the link and then add it to a toolbar from the "My Buttons" section. Essentially, it opens a new tab and close the other tabs on that window. I don't know how to get it to a keyboard shortcut yet, but it's all I can do for now.
opera:/button/New%20page,,,%22Close%20Tabs%22,Close%20&%20Close%20other

Thanks for the help.
I hope that it's more a bug than a feature because it's really annoying.
Hope there will be any chance of changing the behavior with a new update.
Normally I'm open for changes but not if they mess up my usability or aren't changeable

Thanks for the button.
I hope that anyone comes up with a solution that involves my beloved Ctrl+W shortcut without destryoing the regular setting.
I'll use the button on my work-laptop.


BlackEternity