654350 - [10.7] Add Cmd+Opt+Q for "Quit and Discard Windows"

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Most apps on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion enable resuming[1] by default and support a new key combination, Cmd+Opt+Q, for "Quit and Discard Windows".

Questions:

* Should we change Firefox's default behavior to automatically restore windows, at least on Lion, in order to match the behavior of built-in apps?

* When Firefox is set to restore automatically, should Cmd+Opt+Q make Firefox discard the session entirely, or just not restore automatically on the next startup?

* When Firefox is set to not restore automatically, should Cmd+Opt+Q become "Quit and Keep Windows", like it does in TextWrangler?

* Can we implement the behavior where holding the Option key modifies the appearance of the menu item?

[1] http://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/whats-new.html#resume

See also bug 639707, "Add resume support for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion".

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

This isn't intentionally mozilla-corporation-confidential, is it?

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I marked it as confidential due to the NDA on pre-release Lion.  I don't know how much Apple cares enough about the secrecy of this detail.

Comment 3

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

Lion is out, no need to keep this confidential.

Comment 4

[Nick Lowe]

The behaviour is more complex than this.

If the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" tickbox is ticked in the General control panel, then the option with Alt is "Quit and Discard Windows".

If the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" tickbox is unticked, then the option with Alt is "Quit and Keep Windows".

Comment 5

[Florian Bender]

This bug should depend on bug 639707 – no Resume support, nothing to do in this bug. :)

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

I was imagining that we'd hook this shortcut up directly to Firefox's session restore.