Comment 211 for bug 230102

(In reply to Sam Steingold from comment #203)>
> To be fair, this is a problem for _all_ mac os apps.
> Cmd+W closes windows/tabs in all apps, and none of them asks for a
> confirmation on Cmd+Q.
> However, in all other apps accidental quitting is not a big deal.

Well, in other browsers, there's a confirm-on-quit prompt. In multi-window or multi-tab applications like Microsoft Word, if you have unsaved changes, it confirms before quitting. I can't really speak to other things like text editors, mostly because I don't use Macs much anymore.

However, I do think it's important to note that in the context of web browsers, other browsers in OS X confirm on quit, and Firefox, as has been mentioned multiple times, used to confirm on quit. That part is key - the functionality was removed, versus never being there in the first place. Hence, the program is no longer behaving as expected.

> Hear!
>
> This discussion reminds me of the stubborn refusal of google contacts to
> support the iso 8601 date format (YYYY-MM-DD). Sad.

Pidgin went through the same thing in 2008 when the UI was overhauled. They lost a lot of users as a result of the developers' refusal to even consider reverting some of the more ridiculous changes.