Comment 198 for bug 230102

(In reply to Mike Connor [:mconnor] from comment #189)
> WONTFIX is probably closest to the mark, but this is working as designed.
> Not everyone will agree with the design, that's fine, but six years down the
> road I don't see any compelling rationale for changing this behaviour for
> the majority of users.

People are unhappy about the behavior - just look at the number of dupes, votes, and the size of the CC list.
For every person taking the trouble to report the bug, untold thousands are cursing you under their breath.

C-q should be protected by a warning. No other major browser - Opera or Chrome - has the obnoxious behavior of dying on a typo (wiping the sessions and downloads).

> I will note that browser.warnOnQuit is perhaps misnamed,
> as the only functionality it is intended to cover is ...

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