Tired of accidentally closing Firefox with Ctrl+Q when all you wanted to do was close one tab with Ctrl+W?
I sure was. Maybe I’m just an inaccurate typist.
I finally got around to disabling that key combination in FF3 a week or two ago. It seems to be working, so I’ve decided to share a bit.
I used the “keyconfig 20080929” addon. You can find it on this thread here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=72994.
This addon adds a “Keyconfig” menu item under the Tools menu. Scroll down about 8 items and find “Close Window”. Remap it to something that you’re not likely to use by accident. I used Ctrl+Shift+W (for some reason, I couldn’t enter Ctrl+Shift+Q).
Anyway, use at your own risk.
October 2nd, 2011 at 8:15 am
I was wondering why this wasn’t working for me, it’s “Quit []” that you need to remap, not “Close Window”. You can order the list by shortcut.
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:09 am
Thanks. Firefox has probably have changed a bit over the years… though, personally, I’ve actually moved on to Chrome 90% of the time.
January 26th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Or, more simply with no add-ons:
type “about:config” as the URL. You may get a “You break it, it’s not our fault” sort of warning; click on through that.
Search for “quit”.
Double-click on the browser.showQuitWarning line to set it to true.
And that’s it!
September 1st, 2014 at 6:25 am
“Double-click on the browser.showQuitWarning line to set it to true.
And that’s it!”
This doesn’t work. Fireflop gleefully ignores the setting.
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