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(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (email <email address hidden>) from comment #198)
> I'm open to other suggestions (in new bugs) on other ways to make accidental
> quitting more difficult, but I don't think adding a "prompt me on quit"
> checkbox or tying a prompt to the existing "warn on closing multiple tabs"
> checkbox are viable ones.
Do you use OS X on a regular basis?
The default keyboard shortcut for quitting any application in OS X is Cmd+Q. The default keyboard shortcut in Firefox and other browsers to close a single tab is Cmd+W. The Q and W keys are directly next to each other on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Consequently, it is very easy to "fat-finger" the shortcut to close a tab and end up quitting the browser instead.
To make accidental quitting in OS X more difficult, there absolutely *needs* to be a confirmation prompt asking if you're sure you meant to quit your open browser session with multiple open tabs. There is no other way to confirm an accidental quit.
Your arguments as to why this isn't viable have, so far, been completely subjective and provide no technological reason why the confirm-on-quit prompt, which previously existed for many years in the OS X build of Firefox, has been removed and *cannot be added back*.
Saying "we want to favor less prompting and using session restore instead" does absolutely nothing to prevent the accidental quitting of the running browser. Nobody is demanding that a confirm-on-quit prompt be mandatory. We are stating, however, that this prompt used to exist in Firefox and has arbitrarily been removed, and such a prompt is *consistent behavior across multiple operating systems and multiple web browsers*. Every other web browser in OS X behaves in this manner. Firefox behaves in this manner in other operating systems. Firefox used to behave in this manner in OS X, and it has saved many of us from accidentally quitting an open browser session when trying to just close a tab using the default Cmd+W keyboard shortcut.
Nobody is going to point fingers at you and laugh if you swallow your pride and fix this. We will very much thank you for fixing it, because it's a huge usability problem and there is absolutely zero justifiable reason why it hasn't been fixed.