(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (email [email protected]) from comment #193)
> As mentioned already in this bug, we do not "wipe sessions and downloads" on
> Cmd+Q.

As mentioned repeatedly by people who have experienced the bug and had
just that happen to them, this is false.  "Wiping sessions and
downloads" may not be a design goal, but it can be a side effect of this
bug.

> There are other bugs that already cover related issues

I'm interested in *this* issue, not related ones, and I'm not alone in
that.

> At a very high level, I do not think we will be changing the "avoid
> prompting and make it easy to restore" stance.

You can choose whatever default behavior stance you deem best.

What is at issue here is the user's ability to control the browser's
behavior through configuration settings.  It doesn't seem useful to have
an "ignore what the user asks for in his config" stance.

Making it easy to restore a session is a laudable goal.  Crashes and
other fatal failures happen, and the more straightforward it is to get
back up and running, the better.  The browser has gotten much better
about this over time, and I'm happy there is an active effort to
continue improving it.

However, comment 187, comment 190, and the last sentence of comment 192
give some reasons (likely not an exhaustive list) why restoring a
session can never be equivalent to keeping an existing one open for all
users.  If there is a simple way to avoid having to restore at all, many
users would vastly prefer this.

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