Comment 213 for bug 230102

I have a feeling that this discussion is getting more and more out of hand (and ridiculous as well). I think the point a lot of people are trying to make here (myself included) is that there are situations when the USER expresses his wish to be warned before Firefox is closed (regardless of the fact whether the quit command is issued via Alt+Q, Alt+F4 or close button) by checking e.g. the "warn me when closing multiple tabs" option (or setting the appropriate variables in about:config), the user's choice should be respected. Otherwise the options (that are supposed to change the closure behavior) are there only for show. That's kind of like a light switch that doesn't turn on anything. Which begs the question that do those options (like that light switch) serve a purpose at all?

In case this "not a bug, but a feature" issue won't be fixed (and all the developers and whatnot will persist on this stubborn stance), let me point out something else too: up until now it seemed to me that one of the main goals of the Firefox developer team was to create a browser that's better than the rest on the market (especially IE). However if the "prompting on quit" capability will be left intentionally broken, it'll be for the first time in history when Firefox developers will make their flagship product worse than the others on purpose (especially compared to IE, where -upon request- a prompt is displayed both when pressing Alt+F4 or the close button). I sincerely hope that this isn't the path you want to take.

It's been previously mentioned that related issues should be discussed within separate bug entries. Does that mean that the bug I reported on (bug 944394 and which previously has been marked as a duplicate of this one) should be disassociated from this endless discussion and treated as a separate issue too?