Echoing comment 3. (I'm on linux) On comment 4 - '* Quitting the application by using the menu or using the window close button (Windows & Linux only) will not trigger any warning. (Restoring your previous session should be even more discoverable once the new about:home design lands, which seems to be on track to make Firefox 4.0.)'
First, a general point. What is the rationale between the close button not closing FF window with 40 tabs, only if there is another window which may only have one tab? Addressing this feature specifically. The above comment to me seems to miss several usability issues for those with disadvantaged net connections. If the web were static, CPU and bandwidth were free, there isn't really any issue. Unfortunately, when you get away from this ideal case, as is common in many parts of the world, restoring a large number of tabs gets painful. To go into the usability issues I've hit. A) A fair amount of content may not be cached - especially if the browser session has been up for some time. This can take a long time, cost money, or lose data that you were looking at in dynamic pages that have now changed. Yesterday, I was out, and accidentally closed FF, and had to buy wifi access, rather than just use the data in my open tabs. B) Network unreliability. If the network isn't available all the time, then many of the tabs come back broken. C) Stateful pages. I'm a member of a subscription news site that limits my downloads to 20 per day, and sets the no-cache header. This means that when FF restarts, my tabs that I've opened as reference over the last 3-4 days all load at once, and take me over my 20 per day limit, meaning I need to wait a day. D) CPU - I don't have a very fast CPU, even neglecting the above issues, it would take a while to load. A-C could in principle be addressed by by making it possible to set the cache up in such a way that prerequisites of pages are always cached, and on restoring state, the state is restored solely from cache, not touching the network at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583797 Title: "Warn on closing with multiple tabs open" not honored Status in Mozilla Firefox: Fix Released Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 2) apt-cache policy firefox firefox: Installed: 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 Candidate: 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 Version table: *** 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main i386 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-security/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages 3) What is expected to happen in Firefox, with Edit -> Preferences -> Tabs -> "Warn on closing with multiple tabs open" checkbox checked, is when one click the X, File -> Quit, Ctrl+Q , or Alt+Space -> C, one get's the confirmation box: Confirm close You are about to close x tabs. Are you sure you want to continue? 4) What happens instead is one is not warned and the window closes. PARTIAL WORKAROUND: about:config -> browser.tabs.maxOpenBeforeWarn -> change from 15 to 2. This will pop up the confirmation box clicking the X and Alt+Space -> C only. WORKAROUND: Disable Ctrl+Q quiting the browser by installing keyconfig add-on: http://mozilla.dorando.at/keyconfig.xpi Then Tools -> Add-Ons -> Extensions -> keyconfig Preferences -> highlight Quit -> Disable Original Reporter Comments: I found a "workaround" that says to set "open to a blank page" somewhere else, and I set this, but it still doesn't warn me. I work from home and frequently spend an hour or so putting in data, all on one screen. If I accidentally hit the stupid little x (which is now in the left hand corner just where you don't need it, it is too easy to hit it by accident, but i can't change this, it comes with the distro), i lose all that work. Please tell me how to fix this terrible bug. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3 GTB7.1 THIS BUG AFFECTS MY SECURITY (INCOME) but i guess would not be classifed as a security bug per se ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri May 21 14:07:40 2010 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/583797/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
