1356842 - It should be possible to prevent Firefox from Quitting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1167998

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Gerald Squelart (he/him) (not at Mozilla since 2022-09-15)]

Today I accidentally hit Cmd+Q on Mac, and Firefox just quit without warning.
Luckily my session was correctly saved, and I lost nothing. But it was still scary!

I was expecting a warning because:
- In about:preferences - General, both "Warn me when closing..." options are ticked.
- In about:config, "browser.warnOnQuit" and "browser.showQuitWarning" are both true. (Also, having these two similarly-named options with apparently different behaviors is confusing.)
- In Tab Mix Plus, all "Warn me when closing..." options are ticked.

So is there a way to warn me before quitting?

Comment 1

[:Gijs (out for now; he/him)]

bug 1167998 is specific to the cmd-q thing on OS X.

bug 550559 is about how enabling session restore means we don't warn you in some cases.

Feel free to pick a different dupe, but we *definitely* have enough bugs on file for this issue. :-(

It turns out it's impossible to please everyone (and even to understand all the ways the current prefs and behaviours interact), and so there's no traction right now. If you feel strongly about this, I suggest contacting folks on the UX team, though they are unlikely to be able to spend a lot of time thinking about this issue before 57 is out the door...

Comment 2

[Gerald Squelart (he/him) (not at Mozilla since 2022-09-15)]

Bug 1167998 looks like what I would like, thank you Gijs.