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I keep closing my browser tabs by accident with Ctrl + W
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I solved that and much more with Xremap. It's really fantastic, fast, lightweight, and takes precedence over the key scanning of all programs. It handles also program-dependent keybindings. I managed to have Emacs-like keybindings for the whole desktop, but you could just use it to disable or remap C-w for some programs.
Thanks for the suggestion with xremap. I knew some X utils would fix this. GTK (so for some browsers) has an Emacs mode out of the box; I used to use it, but C-w was still being overridden.