667912 - Implement keyboard shortcut hold threshold timer for Quit (CMD/Ctrl + Q)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 565567

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

As far as I'm aware, currently Chromium v14 [1] implements a very useful minimal feature that ultimately places a press duration threshold on the shortcuts for Quitting the browser: Command/Ctrl-Q. 

This ultimately acts as a preventative measure for accidentally closing the window when using keyboard shortcuts, such as the case for incidentally hitting Q when one meant to hit W (Close Window).

The method at which this is detailed to the end-user is via a visible toaster alert that simply indicates: "Hold ⌘Q to Quit", or Hold Control+Q to Quit".

I would love to see this minimal feature added to the Firefox product in the future. 

Currently testing this on Chromium 14.0.805.0 (90675)

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Attachment: Toaster notification - Chromium 14.0.805.0 (90675)

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Chromium Implementation Project Details

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/confirm-to-quit-experiment

Comment 3

[Zandr Milewski [:zandr]]

If this happens, *please* hook it to a pref. This would drive me absolutely crazy.

Comment 4

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Isn't there a risk that pressing and holding Ctrl+Q will kill other programs as well if the computer is fast and the user is slow?

Comment 5

[smt.infp]

There exists a similar implementation request:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677702

Comment 6

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

This is more or less a duplicate of bug 565567. And a WIP patch for this was worked on in bug 550559. There are too many bugs about this issue :)