Let me add my two cents (scroll down for TLDR) (I'm a Windows user BTW). I'm very close to @Ian Stirling opinion from #comment 8. I want to have an option to *absolutely* ask on quit, whatever makes me do so (shortcut, click, menu item); isn't there any 'onbeforequit'-like hook in the codebase, whatever was the root cause that triggered it?
Let me explain the point. For me, Firefox is The Centre Of Management of The Universe. I regularly have 100+ tabs open, with their content being changed by me using some Greasemonkey scripts that add additional content when I click this and that (and this is gone after restart). I can't allow browser just to quit accidentally because of some misfortunate events happening. And there are zillions of things that can accidentally go wrong. I'm a power user, yet it still happens from time to time and you can't help: - I can hit ALT-F4 while I was sure the focus was in the different app. Or hit ALT-F4 more than once, one of this happening in Firefox, because the OS switched the focus after closing previous app to FF which I didn't expect. - I can have a different application (say Notepad) on top of Firefox on the desktop stack. And now two cases: -- when both are maximized, I can hit 'X' twice by chance, because for instance my mouse is malfunctioning, or my touchpad too sensitive etc etc. -- when at least one of them (say Notepad on top) is not maximized, I want to try to close the Notepad, but I move my mouse (or especially touchpad) 2 pixels too far on the right, and, voila, Firefox goes to hell. -- I open a 'File' menu menu via LEFT_ALT, DOWN_ARROW, I see the options, I iterate them via DOWN_ARROW, UP_ARROW, and I push enter on exit, but I wanted one item higher in the menu (theoretical, but can happen). -- Also, I may confuse shortcuts, because I'm overworked and simply tired! All of the above are very unlikely, but still happen from time to time, and each of those is a *DISASTER*, when you have 100+ tabs opened, and (God prevent) you're out of mobile range / your mobile network provider sucks / your phone-as-a-modem sucks etc. while Firefox still thinks you're online. It's especially painful when you buffered than damn 15-minutes YouTube video to watch it offline, then you accidentally close Fx, and you're screwed. Also, I might be downloading a huge file from a server that doesn't support restarts-in-the-middle. Default Firefox behavior (with All-in- one-sidebar) is to close the actual window, and leave only the downloads opened! This is ridiculous. I can now either wait 1h till the download ends, or restart the Firefox, and screw the download. (it doesn't affect me, as I use AiOS add-on; just pointing it). When I tell the browser I want a warning, I REALLY want it, and don't be overly clever to not show it to me when you think it's not necessary. Period. Hope I'm convincing enough. Please, always display me a warning when I want to quit Firefox and I stated it in about:config. Actually I only quit Fx to install upgrades /add-ons, or when the memory consumption is too big. I hibernate my comps, and have Fx opened for whole days. ______ TL;DR: - I may have 100+ tabs - I may have slow connection (laptop, with mobile phone as a modem) - I may sometimes go offline - I may use dynamic content (Greasemonkey, Flash videos loaded) that will be lost after restart - I might be tired and do something stupid by mistake! I'm a human after all Then, session restore is only helpful in the way that you don't lose URLs you were browsing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583797 Title: "Warn on closing with multiple tabs open" not honored To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/583797/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
