A small ask - close button on every tab

Hello MS:

Nice implementation of multiple tabs. A couple of points from me, though:

1. I know you can middle-button-click on a tab to close it, but would it be
too much of an ask to have a tab-close button (the "X" button that currently
shows up only on the current tab and that too when several tabs are open) on
every tab, at least when the mouse hovers above it?

2. Why can't I close the last tab (i.e., the last one remaining when I have
closed all the others)? Ideally, closing this should take us to wherever
opening a new tab takes us.

3. Can we have a setting saying "Never open more than one browser window"?
E.g., Currently my live.com results open in a new browser window, but I want
them, and any other application that wants to open a new browser, to open in
a new TAB instead.

Thanks,
- Rajesh

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NO. because when you switch the tab and the mouse is over the X the tab will
be closed accidentally

 

I just double click where the close tab would be if you selected the tab.

 

Nice point, Bill! I agree that can happen accidentally. But can't we at least
have an option called perhaps "Show close button on all tabs" that could be
off by default? It would be helpful for slow-and-careful users like me (I
hardly ever click on anything without fully understanding it).

Thanks!
- Rajesh