This is especially noticable on a Mac since ⌘Q and ⌘W are right next to
each other, but in general it violates the principle of least surprise:
We currently ask when you quit your browser whether that's what you
wanted to do, and give you an option to "never ask again".
However, when turning on Session Restore, this "never ask again"
behavior is automatically enabled, which is confusing. I appreciate the
logic ("you're not losing anything by quitting since session restore is
awesome"), but it still causes a long startup time if you do it
accidentally.
We could do this only when you quit using a keyboard shortcut too, but
that gets back into the "being too clever" side of things again, since
you would have two slightly different "never ask me again" settings.
Since it's so easy to check the "never ask me again" on the quit dialog,
we shouldn't assume that Session Restore implies that you don't want to
be asked. So let's please disable this behavior.
PS: When one of our developers doesn't even know about this behavior and
creates an extension to fix it, it doesn't speak very well to its obviousness.
;) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/55824/
PPS: Yes, other applications & browsers have this same issue, but that doesn't
mean we shouldn't make it better.
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"Warn on closing with multiple tabs open" not honored
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