530289 - remove ctrl-q keyboard shortcut

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[trx.lists]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Gentoo Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Gentoo Firefox/3.5.5

ctrl-q keyboard shortcut is way too close to ctrl-w (close tab) shortcut.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a lot of tabs, say google search results
2. start reading tab by tab, closing every read one
3. eventualy, you'll hit ctrl-q instead of ctrl-w
Actual Results:  
all your needed tabs are gone

Expected Results:  
get some error or no action at all if I miss my ctrl-w :)

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Or, you could just re-enable "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" in the options.

Comment 2

[trx.lists]

that's one of workarounds.

maybe even better would be to add about:config option for setting/disabling all keyboard shortcuts.

Comment 3

[trx.lists]

adding about:config options for setting and/or disabling for all keyboard shortcuts would not ruin average users' experiance, and on the other hand, that would let people interested in fine-tunning to customize what they need.

Comment 4

[David Dahl :ddahl]

the prompt that asks if you want to quit is the default behavior

Comment 6

[Jelle Geerts]

The "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" option does not work for me. The CTRL+Q shortcut still quits firefox without asking.

If the "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" option was intended to work even when using the CTRL+Q shortcut, then it seems the option is at least partly broken.

Comment 7

[Peter Ford]

(In reply to Jelle Geerts from comment #6)
> If the "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" option was intended to work even
> when using the CTRL+Q shortcut, then it seems the option is at least partly
> broken.

Yes, sounds like bug #419009 - which currently has 43 votes.

Comment 8

[Mardeg]

(In reply to Jelle Geerts from comment #6)
> The "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" option does not work for me. The
> CTRL+Q shortcut still quits firefox without asking.
> 
> If the "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" option was intended to work even
> when using the CTRL+Q shortcut, then it seems the option is at least partly
> broken.

I think it's only meant to work on CTRL+Q if browser.showQuitWarning is set to true.