I was so frustrated with this happening in Safari I remapped it to a key combination I'm unlikely to hit accidently. Try this at the command line:
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Quit Safari" "@^ Q" defaults read com.apple.Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents But agreed, it was a dumb design decision, even if it is at least something you can override. On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Bill Page wrote:
can someone please send steve a memo that having apple + q so close to apple +w makes it far too easy to quit something you didn't mean to? even just making close window apple + e would make it less easy to kill a browserful of tabs or an adiumful of conversations.
