1194839 - "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" option does not work.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 801072

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[tggm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150806001005

Steps to reproduce:

1) Go to tools -> Options and uncheck the option "Warn me when closing multiple tabs"
2) Open multiple tabs.
3) Right-click one tab and select "close other tabs".



Actual results:

A warning is produced prompting the user to confirm the "close other tabs" action


Expected results:

No warning should have been displayed

Comment 1

[Loic]

Could you test:
1) in safe mode:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

2) with a fresh profile:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Does it work?

Comment 2

[tggm]

(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> Could you test:
> 1) in safe mode:
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-
> mode
> 
> 2) with a fresh profile:
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-
> firefox-profiles
> 
> Does it work?

No. I reinstalled my entire OS and just tested again.

Current setup is:
Windows 10 x64
Firefox 41.0.2

Comment 3

[tggm]

This issue still exists on the latest version (43.0.1). Why is it unconfirmed ?

Comment 4

[YF (Yang)]

browser.tabs.warnOnCloseOtherTabs