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This is both a visual and usability request. Having the presence of an Orion window be contingent on an open tab means that moving that tab to a different tab group closes the Orion window as a whole. I feel that the default state of Orion should be no open tabs at all, with a blank vertical tab list and an open search bar at the top. See the below screen recording for reference. When closing tabs generally, closing the last open tab shouldn't close the window as a whole (this would replicate the experience on Safari — see the second below screen recording — whereas the current experience is more similar to Chrome's). Just a note that the Orion window does not quit, it just closes but Orion remains open as an app.

Introduce a different default state that doesn't involve having an open tab.

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    For reference, what closing tabs on Orion is currently like — much like Chrome. Again, Orion is not quit, there is just no longer a live window.

      Have you tried turning that setting off?

        Yannick Hi Yannick, this sort of fixes it. See the below screen recording. My UI expectation when clicking to close that window, though, is that an interface with no open tabs (untitled included) should be displayed, or that the tab shouldn't have a close-able X button in the first place (and have no name/be blank, instead of being called untitled.

            oplos Okay, I understand better now. We should display the Startpage or the Homepage here, depending on your preference, right?

                Yannick Yes, I feel like this should be customisable! Startpage/homepage/empty page.

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                  I saw that this was part-implemented in Orion's recent update. Just a few notes on this new behaviour @Yannick.

                  1. Untitled tabs should be closeable the same way a regular tab displaying content should be, bringing the default state to zero tabs.

                  2. When closing a tab displaying content, the search bar should be cleared too.

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