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 Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583797 Title: "Warn on closing with multiple tabs open" not honored Status in Mozilla Firefox: Fix Released Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 2) apt-cache policy firefox firefox: Installed: 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 Candidate: 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 Version table: *** 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main i386 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-security/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages 3) What is expected to happen in Firefox, with Edit -> Preferences -> Tabs -> "Warn on closing with multiple tabs open" checkbox checked, is when one click the X, File -> Quit, Ctrl+Q , or Alt+Space -> C, one get's the confirmation box: Confirm close You are about to close x tabs. Are you sure you want to continue? 4) What happens instead is one is not warned and the window closes. PARTIAL WORKAROUND: about:config -> browser.tabs.maxOpenBeforeWarn -> change from 15 to 2. This will pop up the confirmation box clicking the X and Alt+Space -> C only. WORKAROUND: Disable Ctrl+Q quiting the browser by installing keyconfig add-on: http://mozilla.dorando.at/keyconfig.xpi Then Tools -> Add-Ons -> Extensions -> keyconfig Preferences -> highlight Quit -> Disable Original Reporter Comments: I found a "workaround" that says to set "open to a blank page" somewhere else, and I set this, but it still doesn't warn me. I work from home and frequently spend an hour or so putting in data, all on one screen. If I accidentally hit the stupid little x (which is now in the left hand corner just where you don't need it, it is too easy to hit it by accident, but i can't change this, it comes with the distro), i lose all that work. Please tell me how to fix this terrible bug. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3 GTB7.1 THIS BUG AFFECTS MY SECURITY (INCOME) but i guess would not be classifed as a security bug per se ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri May 21 14:07:40 2010 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/583797/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
