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0 pointsjessaustin11y ago0 comments

...the whole window with ctrl+q.

OMG I've never done that but now that I know about it I'm very afraid. If I do it tomorrow I'm blaming you.

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Thankfully, Chrome has a built-in feature to prevent this from happening (on OSX at least). Just go to Chrome > Warn before Quitting and make sure there's a checkmark next to the option.

Now, if you accidentally press Cmd + Q, it should prompt a "Hold Cmd + Q to Quit" instead of actually quitting.

tremendo11y ago

Or, Settings > On Startup... "Continue where you left off". This will restore your tabs after launching Chrome.

Houshalter11y ago

I disabled that warning because it's annoying every time I want to close the browser, even without the dangerous keyboard shortcut. If it happens, you can go to the menu and find "recent tabs" or just ctrl+shift+t.

sp33211y ago

If you do this in Firefox, you can go to History -> Restore previous session. This will bring up all the tabs you had open last time it quit.

viraptor11y ago

This helps: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/customizable-...

Also, I made a mistake, it doesn't close the window. It closes all windows at once. Be afraid!

pooper11y ago

ctrl + q very appropriately quits the application. If this came as a ticket to me, I'd close it as working as expected.

djur11y ago

Traditionally applications have asked the user if they're sure they want to quit. That's a no-no these days, but it's still a reasonable choice in situations where the cost of quitting might be high (there's unsaved content, or the app takes a long time to start, or it's impossible to persist the current state of the application).

For some time, the Chrome team refused to implement a 'Sure you want to quit?' popup due to a general anti-popups consensus. They also refused to implement a checkbox to enable that behavior due to a general anti-configuration consensus. They've since relented on the latter.

pooper11y ago

Mozilla Firefox used to have a setting under options/preferences to disable loading images and loading javascript. People complained and said this should be removed as not enough people use it and that people who use it can create/use an add-on to do the same.

It is not easy to find a right balance between providing adequate functionality while avoiding information overload. The web is still evolving. We are learning and we will do better (overall) as time goes by. :)

SilasX11y ago

... and then you'd spin it off as a feature (or design review) request for better handling of accidental quit actions, right?

pooper11y ago

I like this idea. I will try to remember this because it is the perfect answer in situations like these...

nitrogen11y ago

Ctrl-Q typically preserves the session though, so all non-ajax sites will come back as they are, including partially filled forms.

Sami_Lehtinen11y ago

Yeah, if you don't care about privacy and save such data to disk as active session, active browser tabs, history, cookies, etc. Those should be RAM only for privacy reasons and never stored to any medium which can store those for extended periods.

LukeShu11y ago

I've done it enough times that I was finally motivated to figure out to set browser.showQuitWarning=true in about:config.

oakwhiz11y ago

The other reason I enable browser.showQuitWarning in Firefox is because you can Save and Quit instead of just quitting.

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sushid11y ago

Thankfully, Chrome has a built-in feature to prevent this from happening (on OSX at least). Just go to Chrome > Warn before Quitting and make sure there's a checkmark next to the option.

Now, if you accidentally press Cmd + Q, it should prompt a "Hold Cmd + Q to Quit" instead of actually quitting.

tremendo11y ago

Or, Settings > On Startup... "Continue where you left off". This will restore your tabs after launching Chrome.

Houshalter11y ago

sp33211y ago

If you do this in Firefox, you can go to History -> Restore previous session. This will bring up all the tabs you had open last time it quit.

viraptor11y ago

This helps: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/customizable-...

Also, I made a mistake, it doesn't close the window. It closes all windows at once. Be afraid!

pooper11y ago

ctrl + q very appropriately quits the application. If this came as a ticket to me, I'd close it as working as expected.

djur11y ago

pooper11y ago

SilasX11y ago

... and then you'd spin it off as a feature (or design review) request for better handling of accidental quit actions, right?

pooper11y ago

I like this idea. I will try to remember this because it is the perfect answer in situations like these...

nitrogen11y ago

Ctrl-Q typically preserves the session though, so all non-ajax sites will come back as they are, including partially filled forms.

Sami_Lehtinen11y ago

LukeShu11y ago

I've done it enough times that I was finally motivated to figure out to set browser.showQuitWarning=true in about:config.

oakwhiz11y ago

The other reason I enable browser.showQuitWarning in Firefox is because you can Save and Quit instead of just quitting.

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