Comment #21 on issue 1820 by haridara: Feature request: Display confirmation dialog when closing Chrome with more than one active tab http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1820
@xnoreq, on the contrary, when my firefox installation doesn't prompt me for this dialog, I notice it immediately and enable it. This is why you would need the feature, even if the default is not to prompt. At least, people like me can look for the option and enable it to see the dialog next time. Regarding why you might close such a window, see the comments on this blog: http://www.techzoomin.com/google-chrome-closes-all-the-tabs-without-notification-exclusive-review-by-tzi Here is another beautiful reason why you might close chrome window and fall into this situation, and it is not even accidental. It is often a practice to use the "X" button on the top-right corner to close applications, however it is a bad practice to do this (instead of using File->Exit or something similar) because, it doesn't make the application exit if that is not the last window. In case of something like MS Outlook, all that means is that you need further actions to make Outlook completely exit (e.g., close the rest of the windows the same way, or switch to File->Exit) and no harm is done. But consider the same with Chrome. Let us say you have two windows with multiple tabs in each. In order to make chrome exit, a user could click on the "X" button instead of using Settings->Exit. When the user realizes that chrome didn't exit, he/she will be in for a surprise. The problem is that if the user simply closes the second window also, the next time chrome is started it will reopen only that window. If the user is aware of this issue, he/she would want to first restore the window and before exiting properly, but since there is no current mechanism to do that, they will have to go through a number of clicks, essentially repeating the below steps a number of times after opening a new window: - Open new tab - Click on the first link in "Recently closed tabs" The above is a good workaround as long chrome remembers all the tabs in the last closed window (which is not the case right now), but still is painful and is not obvious to most users. @hirsch.will, there is a limit of how many closed tabs chrome remembers (I think it is 10) and I often have more tabs than that. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
