Protect open program window from accidental closure?

I have taken to using Outlook and keep the tab 'live' for every computing session. The problem is avoiding accidentally closing it. Is there any way of protecting a tab so that it isn't easily closed? I know you're going to tell me to be more careful when closing tabs and I agree that that's the only real answer, but I'm sure that other users want to keep their email tab live for long periods and must have had this problem.

Do you mean MS Office Outlook - the client email application? Or do you mean a browser window to your email at Outlook.com?

Your reference to a tab suggests the latter but I thought it worth checking.

The former could be done with a bit of VBA, the latter I don't know.

Edit: If you're referring to a browser tab then which browser?

Edited by cheshire_man (Mon 12-Oct-15 08:00:25)

G**gle > Tabloc

G**gle > Tab managers

Don't use any myself just now.


Edit > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/...

Edited by Apprentice (Mon 12-Oct-15 09:07:09)

If you're using ie and accidentally closing the desired tab by closing another, check your settings under internet options>settings>tabs.

In a similar situation recently I dragged the email tab down from the tab bar, which turns it into the first tab of its own window. As I don't usually use IE11 in full width I then had one IE11 window at the left edge of the screen and the other further to the right, largely overlapping, with a space to the right for a single column of my most-used icons.

I have the taskbar properties >> button options set to Combine when full. If you have it on Always combine you select either by clicking a visible part of the required window, or by hovering over the button. When the second window was email I found I sometimes messed up, in a very minor way, by clicking on a visible part.

Edited by RobertoS (Mon 12-Oct-15 09:47:00)