Comment #57 on issue 147 by krschacht: Warn when closing with multiple tabs open http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147
Chrome Team, Let me tell you a quick story about why the lack of this feature makes me reluctantly have to stop using Chrome. Just now I was just on a forum writing a lengthy response to a heated discussion on a message board I run. In order to write this response I was flipping back and forth between a few different tabs to reference what other users had written, make sure I was quoting appropriately, etc. Along the way I was closing out tabs as I addressed them (Ctrl+W). I had written about a page worth of text when all the sudden while pressing Ctrl+W I accidentally pressed (I think) Ctrl+Q. I was in shock. It happened so fast I didn't even know what happened. I thought the browser had crashed, my lengthy reply just disappeared in front of my eyes. I went to the Chrome History & saw my forum tab listed under "recently closed tabs." I re-opened it to see the original topic and an EMPTY reply box where an hour of work was lost. :( I was SO mad. I urge you to add a confirmation with closing the entire browser--and even better, Safari also has a confirmation when you enter text into a form field and try to close a single tab. I never realized how valuable these features are until I don't have it. These are the kind of features that, 95% of the time they don't matter, but 1-5% of the time they are the most important feature in the world and not having them kills you. Unlike other features that affect only 1-5% of users, I think this is a feature that affects 100% of users, but only does so 1-5% of the time. I've read this topic & I understand that currently the chrome team does not plan to implement. This is my plea to you as I sadly go back to using Safari because I can't afford to occasionally lose chunks of work as I accidentally close the browser. :( -- 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
