Retain Safari Full Screen

I love Lion's new full screen (yeah yeah, my 2nd monitor is useless) but I have run into something with Safari that is annoying me. I keep all of my bookmarks sorted in folders (comics, sports, news...) in the bookmark bar and each morning open them all via the "open in tabs" command. As I read each page I open links by command clicking them and close finished pages with command + w.

Here is where I run into an annoyance.

When I get to the last tab closing it takes me back to the desktop. This is fine, except when I click on Safari to open a new window, it isn't full screen. Now I either need to use the keyboard command or the window icon.

What I would like is either a popup to let me know I am closing the last tab (but not when I am just closing one of many tabs) or a way to make new windows open in full screen.

Any ideas?

fitshaced, I am not looking to quit Safari. The annoyance is that when there is only one tab and I close it, Safari stops being a full screen app because there are no windows to be full screen. When I click on the Safari icon in the dock, a new window opens, but not as a full screen window.

Does that make more sense?

I might just have to add a dummy tab to each of my bookmarks. Thanks folks. I just wish there was a more elegant solution.

4jasontv said:

I might just have to add a dummy tab to each of my bookmarks. Thanks folks. I just wish there was a more elegant solution.

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I mean to each folder of bookmarks. These are websites I read with my morning coffee, and most of the time I am not yet awake to remember to do something special.

Solution

I did eventually find a solution to this. tabkeys has a feature:

Lastly, there is a setting that determines what happens when you close the last tab of a window. Instead of closing the window, Tabkeys can replace the last tab with an empty one or load a specified URL into it. (On Safari 5.0.x, this setting only works when you close the last tab using a Tabkeys shortcut. On newer Safari versions, it is always effective.)

Word of warning, some of the default hotkeys can make typing on some websites a little wonky.