1607513 - Firefox should ask to confirm killing all pages

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[André Pirard]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

Ubuntu any and other systems, Firefox any.

When a large number of FF pages exist, Alt+clicking+Firefox->Close All (by mistake) in the desktop taskbar opens a flurry of pages and of 'Are you sure?" dialog boxes as well as a chimes concert.
Then one has to deny the questions one by one, single tab windows are closed anyway and I can't explain how some multi tab windows were once closed too. My option is to kill Firefox in such cases.
If some programs warn that a single click is going to open more than 5 editing windows at once, then the above case is sure a candidate for a preliminary question "Are you sure you want to kill your 35 pages?".

Continue the excellent Firefox work, but don't forget that Thunderbird is much better than all those Webmails that, just as one example, cannot open multiple servers and drag e-mails from one to the other to do an easy backup.
TIA.

Actual results:

What I say.

Expected results:

Asking the confirmation I say.

Comment 1

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Hi Andre,
Simply choosing to "Close all windows" from the taskbar context menu does also have the mentioned behavior of toggling the exit dialog for each opened window.

It would be more suitable for that combination to use the method that Ctrl+Shift+Q does, like: "You are about to close 3 windows with 31 tabs. Are you sure..."

Will mark this as a defect for now for developers to check it out.
Thanks for the report!

Comment 2

[André Pirard]

Yes, you perfectly understood what I said and sketched the correct solution.
What I can add is that I do a lot of Alt-right-clicking of Firefox in the desktop taskbar while it restarts and that a slip can be fatal.

Why a lot? That's because I use them to Move to Another Workspace the pages to where they were before Quitting.
Based on screenshots.
Imagine the time saving if FF restored the pages to the initial workspace.
This is why this has been asked several years ago.

Thanks !!!

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Seems like a widget bug to me. I.e. if the OS sends a request (multiple requests?) for closing all window, Gtk widget code should interpret that and pass it on as a quit application request.