Comment 202 for bug 230102

I'm not sure why this has turned into such a crusade on the part of the dev team. This same thing happened with Pidgin when long-maintained features were arbitrarily removed. Those devs were just as insistent that the changes were good. Some were reverted, others weren't, and the project lost a lot of users as a result.

Firefox used to warn on quit in OS X. It still does in Windows and Linux. The behavior in OS X is inconsistent with the user experience in the context of both web browsers in general and Firefox specifically.

At this point the refusal to fix this is simply stubbornness. You can keep coming up with reasons, but it doesn't change the fact that the current behavior is inconsistent. The worst part is that it used to work!