Comment 1 for bug 43503

I agree. Most people would not think to right-click the drive on the Desktop and select "Eject". People expect to be able to take their USB drive out when they like and have all their files be on the drive, as they are able to do in Windows. I belive (please correct me if I'm wrong) XP uses no drive caching by default to solve this problem. Windows 2000 displays a warning when you don't properly eject a removable device and shows you how to properly remove the device in the future.

If the drive caching problem can't be solved, making it more obvious how to unmount the Flash drive and/or displaying a warning similar to Windows 2000's when the drive is improperly removed would be good. (I'm not a developer, so I have no idea how hard any of this would be to implement)