I’ve noticed this odd behavior when closing 2 tabs in Firefox. It occurs, to my knowledge, only under Mac OS X, as I’ve tested it under Microsoft Windows and Fedora Core 2 Linux as well.

You can replicate the problem as follows:

1-Start Firefox
2-Open 2 new tabs (so you’ll have a total of 3 tabs open)
3-Locate the “X” that closes the current tab in Firefox
4-Quickly close two tabs by clicking the “X” twice, quickly
5-You’ll notice that you will close 2 tabs, but one new one will be created
6-Now, to understand more of why this is happening, double-click in the “grey” tab area, where there is no existing tab. You’ll notice that is creates a new tab.

Firefox should ignore clicks on the “X” as they apply to creating a new tab. As it stands, it seems as though Firefox counts a click on the “X” as a click towards creating a new tab.

I checked the Firefox bugzilla page and found that someone has already filed this bug.

Nice.

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