# YES I want to close the close the fucking window/tab! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414 "2016-10-13T13:34:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/1 "2016-10-13T13:34:53Z")
That’s why I clicked on the little “X”! YES I want to empty the fucking trash. That’s why I clicked on the “empty trash” button! Not every thing I do is a mistake. In fact, only a very small number of things I do daily are mistakes. I resent your assumption that everything I do is a mistake. Fuck you and your constant confirming every god damn thing I do on the fucking computer! That is all. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/2 "2016-10-13T14:36:59Z")
Are you sure you want to post this Pit thread? ---
**Author:** ![CoastalMaineiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/3 "2016-10-13T14:56:28Z")
Sound like you need to give Linux a try. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/4 "2016-10-13T15:00:44Z")
This is the year of Linux on the desktop. I can feel it! ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/5 "2016-10-13T15:11:39Z")
Especially in new email windows where I haven’t even typed anything, yet. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/6 "2016-10-13T15:13:37Z")
Except the first time it happens because you accidentally clicked the X and didn’t get asked if you really wanted to do that. Then your rant becomes ‘why didn’t they make sure I really wanted to nuke Switzerland???’ ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/7 "2016-10-13T15:16:58Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Except the first time it happens because you accidentally clicked the X and didn’t get asked if you really wanted to do that. Then your rant becomes ‘why didn’t they make sure I really wanted to nuke Switzerland???’ Of course I wanted to nuke Switzerland! With enemies you know where they stand, but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/8 "2016-10-13T15:20:11Z")
Close the close! Close the close! Close the close! ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/9 "2016-10-13T15:34:02Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > Especially in new email windows where I haven’t even typed anything, yet. Drafts: **[1]** ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/10 "2016-10-13T15:59:28Z")
Closing the window isn’t much of a risk. Emptying the trash could be problematic. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/11 "2016-10-13T16:06:21Z")
I’ve always wondered if that wasn’t a trigger for some evil thing attacking my computer. I respond with Alt F4. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/12 "2016-10-13T16:12:10Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > This is the year of Linux on the desktop. I can feel it! \ Oh, not another one! \ ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/13 "2016-10-13T16:12:50Z")
When I’m on my computer, I open everything in a new window. Just a quirk of mine. When I’m on my kindle, I open everything in a new tab, because the screen is smaller. So when I go to close a window on my kindle, I appreciate the reminder that I’m also closing 14 tabs and the question, do you really want to do that? Usually I don’t. This is useful for people who lose track of whether they’re on their computer, tablet, or phone. I am one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/14 "2016-10-13T16:15:01Z")
I can’t think of a tabbed interface that doesn’t have an option to warn/not warn when closing multiple tabs at once. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/15 "2016-10-13T20:33:33Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > I’ve always wondered if that wasn’t a trigger for some evil thing attacking my computer. > I respond with Alt F4. What does Alt F4 do? My first job as a Unix programmer was creating “Are you sure y/n” loops around certain rather volatile instructions. Might just possibly have saved some grief. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/16 "2016-10-13T20:58:50Z")
I endorse this rant, and silently re-enact it at least once a day. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/17 "2016-10-13T21:08:57Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > This is useful for people who lose track of whether they’re on their computer, tablet, or phone. I am one of those. I lose track of whether I’m on my computer or in the real world. It gets embarrassing when I try to click on the little X when someone’s talking to me in person. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/18 "2016-10-13T21:18:00Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I lose track of whether I’m on my computer or in the real world. It gets embarrassing when I try to click on the little X when someone’s talking to me in person. Since you said that, I can confess that sometimes when I’m writing something out by hand and I pause in the middle of the word, I half expect autotext to fill in the rest of the word for me. Yeah, on the paper. I’m not making this up. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/19 "2016-10-13T22:09:13Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Since you said that, I can confess that sometimes when I’m writing something out by hand and I pause in the middle of the word, I half expect autotext to fill in the rest of the word for me. Yeah, on the paper. I’m not making this up. When I’m filling in a crossword puzzle, I think, hey, I better save this or I’ll lose all my work. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414/20 "2016-10-14T04:02:30Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I can’t think of a tabbed interface that doesn’t have an option to warn/not warn when closing multiple tabs at once. Well, I don’t get a warning when I close Firefox (running on Linux), but when I start it up again all the tabs are back anyway so it doesn’t matter. I accidentally close the wrong tab occasionally both in Firefox on my desktop and in Safari on my iPad, but undoing that is easy enough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-i-want-to-close-the-close-the-fucking-window-tab/768414.md?page=2)