286326 - Close window on Ctrl-W key binding should confirm if text has been entered

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 48333

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[John Hopkins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Almost everyone uses webmail these days including me.  I've been burned twice
recently by Firefox when I accidentally hit Ctrl-W while typing a lengthy email.
 The window vanished just as it was programmed to and I lost my entire email
both times.  Rethinking emails is just as frustrating as rethinking code. :(

What I propose is that Firefox confirms before allowing the window to close if:
- more than 100 characters has been input on the page

This would be a very worthwhile and smart enhancement.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to webmail
2. Type an email
3. Press Ctrl-W

Actual Results:  
Window closes and you lose your email

Expected Results:  
Firefox should confirm that you want to lose your text and close the window.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 292233 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Matthew R. Howard, Sr.]

User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1)
Gecko/20050816 Firefox/1.0+

Confirmed here, I too have lost 20+ tabs of firefox after leaving nano/pico, and
ctrl-w'ing to find on page.

Comment 3

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

This sounds like a good idea for an extension.  However, the behavior can be
verified to exist (although I think the main source is a PEBKAC error), so I
will CONFIRM this enhancement request.

Comment 4

[bugzilla]

This is not an "enhancement".

THIS IS A DATA LOSS BUG.

Any bug which can permanently and irrevocably destroy user data, and does so regularly according to a broad range of users, is "critical" by definition.

This should be marked as critical.  It is also a duplicate of many other bugs.

Come on, guys.  This should have been fixed years ago.  It's easy, simple, and worth fixing.

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Asking every time the program thinks you typed something would be very annoying. Ideally, Session Store would be able to save the typed text and make it available in a user-visible way if you Undo close tab. (C.f. bug 345135.)

Comment 6

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.