Closing TABS in Safari 4.01 *sometimes* closes the entire Window..

i've ran across this same issue in safari 4 beta, and now in safari 4. super annoying, and i have no idea what's causing it.

edit: i have no plugins installed.

Message was edited by: fshelleyiv

Ever since upgrading to 4.01 I can get this to happen every time. When I have multiple tabs open, and the left-most tab is active, CMD-W closes all of the tabs. Can anyone else reproduce this reliably?

Same problem here in Version 4.0.2 (5530.19), except it happens regardless of which tab is focussed; right, left, somewhere in the middle... it doesn't matter. This would be expected behaviour if you hold the shift-key (cmd + shift + w) yet I'm certain that that's not the case and the shift key also isn't stuck somehow. Maybe there's something interally not quite right, causing Safari only to think that the shift key is also pressed.

In any case, it's extremely annoying. Whoever has a solution, I'll send a cookie!

+1
This is driving me nuts.
It appears to be random, no specific tabs have to be selected, Safari 4.02.

rocking 4.0.3 now and still have the issue. i just figured out how to repeat it.

i had a video open in youtube, fullscreen. i got out by hitting Escape, and when i exited the fullscreen, there were no longer any tabs selected (the close/minimize/maximize buttons were all gray instead of the usual red/yellow/green).
if i click on the front-most page, it'll close with command-w as normal. if i don't click on the window, it asks me to close the entire window instead of just the active tab (because there is now active tab).

I guess the workaround for now is to make sure you go into Preferences, then under the Tabs section, make sure "Confirm before closing multiple tabs or windows" is checked.

The bug, or whatever it is, is still here, but I found a little work around as well.

First I deleted everything that had anything to do with Safari; except the app itself and my bookmarks. Every config file, addon, plugin, etc. Then I rebooted, but still the same. However, here's the funny part.

1. I open up Safari for the first time;
2. I open up some tabs;
3. I close one (random) tab using cmd + w

Now I asks me: Do you want to close all tabs/windows? It's there. Always. But when I do this:

4. I confirm, closing all my tabs;
5. I click on Safari again, it opens a fresh window
6. I open up some tabs;
7. I close one (random) tab using cmd + w

It works!

So, every time Safari is completely shut down (cmd + q) and I restart it again, I start with steps 1-3 and close all tabs. Then, when Safari is still running but without any windows, I click it again, and from that point on everything seems to be working just fine.

I never really close Safari anyways, it's always on. But there are always situations that it does get closed. So whenever that happens I just open a few empty tabs, close 'm, get the message, close all tabs, and then I start with my real browsing.

It's still annoying, but it's fine by me. I didn't update to 4.0.3 by the way. No way I'm messing with it any further now that it's partially working again.

Another strange detail; my SIMBL plugins don't seem to work either when Safari first starts. But opening a new window after the first buggy-close-all-action also re-enables my plugins.

Weird stuff, no?

fshelleyiv appears to have found a 100% reproducible method and why it happens. Hopefully this will lead to Adobe and/or Apple fixing this bug soon! It's been plaguing Safari for forever. Also, I've seen reports over at Chromium forums of the same issue, so this might help them as well.

Bug #1 - When leaving fullscreen flash mode, topmost Safari window loses focus.
Bug #2 - After all Safari windows lose focus by bug #1, cmd-w is no longer close tab, but close window.

Reproducible with: Safari 4.0.3, Mac OS X 10.5.8, Intel Core Duo MacBook.
Workaround: Apple and/or Adobe fixing it.

This has annoyed me forever, thanks for finding out how to reproduce this issue. Now let's hope Apple and Adobe gets this mess sorted out. Though now I can at least figure how to not cause this to happen.

This problem is apparently fixed in Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, from my experience, there is high probability that fixes for bugs like these will not be backported to Leopard or older. Hope your Mac has Intel Inside(TM)...

I am getting a slightly different problem. Using CMD-W with multiple tabs open used to result in the focus shifting to the right - if there was a tab open to the right. And if you were already on the right-most tab, then repeating CMD-W would close the tabs one by one, right to left.

This no longer happens in Safari 4.0.3. Wherever you are, hitting CMD-W results in the focus jumping back to the left-most tab, and hitting it repeatedly closes the tabs in a strange order which is neither strictly right-to-left nor left to right, but hops around a bit. I hope that makes sense

I installed Glims hoping to be able to find a setting to stop this, but with no luck.

Is anyone else seeing this problem?

Nope, not solved in Snow Leopard! Happens to me all of the time.