+ We use to show tabcandy whenever we closed any tab. We now only focus tabcandy when the last tab in a group is closed.

+ TODO: Ideally, we should have an animation of the last tab be zoomed out into the tabcandy interface, and then that tab fading away along with the group (if the group is unnamed).

browser/base/content/tabcandy/app/ui.js

@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ var Tabbar = {
 window.Page = {
   startX: 30, 
   startY: 70,
+  
+  show: function(){
+    Utils.homeTab.focus();
+    UI.tabBar.hide(false);
+  },
     
   // ----------  
   init: function() {    
@@ -111,7 +116,12 @@ window.Page = {
     Utils.homeTab.raw.minWidth = 60;
     
     Tabs.onClose(function(){
-      Utils.homeTab.focus();
+      // Only go back to the TabCandy tab when there you close the last
+      // tab of a group.
+      var group = Groups.getActiveGroup();
+      if( group && group._children.length == 0 ){
+        Page.show();
+      }
       Toolbar.unread = 0;    
       return false;
     });

browser/base/content/tabcandy/core/utils.js

@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ var Utils = {
     
     return null;
   },
-  
+    
   // ___ Files
   getInstallDirectory: function(id) { 
     var file = extensionManager.getInstallLocation(id).getItemFile(id, "install.rdf");