Joe Hart wrote: > KS wrote: >> Long time ago Firefox used to behave like a normal Linux application >> with regards to keyboard shortcuts to close/quit the application. >> However, somewhere during the 1.5.x release or with 2.0, the Ctrl+Q does >> not do anything. Ctrl+W closes one tab at a time only and Ctrl+Shift+W >> quits the application (with more than 1 tabs open also). > >> Why is it that it does not follow the *normal* keyboard shortcut of >> Ctrl+Q for quitting the application? All the applications that I used >> with either KDE or GNOME have Ctrl+Q as the shortcut to quit >> application. Am I missing something while expecting that Firefox should >> also behave like the others on Linux at least? > > You have to consider that Firefox's main target is Windows, not Linux. > Actually, according to the mozilla documentation, they specifically > write code that is portable, and even has guidelines on how to do it. > > That being said, the program is different, only in slight ways between a > Windows version and a Unix version. You can press ctrl-w to close a > window (current tab). Pressing the same key when only one window is > open will exit the program. > > Koqueror, the all-in-one file manager and browser, on the the other hand > follows the same rule to close the windows, however ctrl-w will not > close the program, nor will ctrl-q. Sadly to say, you're going to have > to get used to new shortkuts, or you can download the source code and > change the shortcuts and recompile. > > Alt-F4 (the Windows shortcut for closing a program) works on both. > > Joe
Even the not-open source Opera uses the usual shortcuts. I agree that Firefox's main target is Windows but still if they can give Linux builds the Preferences menu under Edit as opposed to Tools > Preferences under Windose, Ctrl+Q shouldn't be that big a change for their auto build system. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
