I have a feeling that this discussion is getting more and more out of
hand (and ridiculous as well). I think the point a lot of people are
trying to make here (myself included) is that there are situations when
the USER expresses his wish to be warned before Firefox is closed
(regardless of the fact whether the quit command is issued via Alt+Q,
Alt+F4 or close button) by checking e.g. the "warn me when closing
multiple tabs" option (or setting the appropriate variables in
about:config), the user's choice should be respected. Otherwise the
options (that are supposed to change the closure behavior) are there
only for show. That's kind of like a light switch that doesn't turn on
anything. Which begs the question that do those options (like that light
switch) serve a purpose at all?

In case this "not a bug, but a feature" issue won't be fixed (and all
the developers and whatnot will persist on this stubborn stance), let me
point out something else too: up until now it seemed to me that one of
the main goals of the Firefox developer team was to create a browser
that's better than the rest on the market (especially IE). However if
the "prompting on quit" capability will be left intentionally broken,
it'll be for the first time in history when Firefox developers will make
their flagship product worse than the others on purpose (especially
compared to IE, where -upon request- a prompt is displayed both when
pressing Alt+F4 or the close button). I sincerely hope that this isn't
the path you want to take.

It's been previously mentioned that related issues should be discussed
within separate bug entries. Does that mean that the bug I reported on
(bug 944394 and which previously has been marked as a duplicate of this
one) should be disassociated from this endless discussion and treated as
a separate issue too?

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