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I also really dislike this new "enhancement" to the "warn on close" behavior.
I use an excellent extension called Session Manager which worked beautifully in FireFox 2.0 to allow me to automatically save most details from my current browsing session automatically, and is also integrated with FireFox's own "Show my Windows and Tabs from last Time" setting. It also adds additional benefits of capturing tabs from multiple windows and allowing me to reclaim the last n previously closed tabs and or windows. I have had excellent results using this and it met all my browser session needs easily.
Now in FireFox 3.0, I no longer have a chance to cancel an application quit when the close button is clicked, and I also can no longer click the close button if I want to get a quick tabulation of how many tabs are running. Another huge problem with the restoring sessions, is that often some of my open tasks contain data from dynamic web pages, and re-opening the application causes them to be retrieved from the site again and I no longer have the "Same" page available that I'd wanted to use. I can live with this after an application crash or if I want to close FireFox manually for some other reason, but I really dislike the removal of the "you are about to close n tabs are you sure?" warning.
Please restore a way for us users to show this warning regardless of the current setting chosen for "When FireFox Starts:". Maybe add a setting "When FireFox Quits:"? I could even live with a warning that comes up regardless of the number of tabs. "You are about to close this Window. Are you sure?"
I understand that there are a few flaws with the logic behind the way FireFox 2 behaves when closing, but this is one of several reasons that I always add Session Manager to my FireFox which currently is able to "fix" most of the flaws with the Firefox 2 behavior issues. Perhaps I should file a request with that maintainer instead of here since he is much more willing to try to give his users the functionality and OPTIONS that they want to have?
Thank you for considering my rant.
-Ryan