Re: Keyboard shortcut question

From	Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.seamonkey
Subject	Re: Keyboard shortcut question
Date	2026-02-24 06:30 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2026-02-23, Dave Yeo wrote:

> NFN Smith wrote:
>> When I have the browser open, I frequently (but not always) close
>> tabs with Ctrl-W.
>>
>> However, I generally forget about the presence of Ctrl-Q to close
>> out Seamonkey entirely, at least until I'm sloppy with pressing
>> keys, and hit that one accidentally, and the result is that
>> Seamonkey immediately closes with no further dialog.
>>
>> I don't mind having the ability to close entirely with a shortcut,
>> but on the occasions I do it accidentally, it is annoying to have
>> everything closed immediately, without any confirmation.
>>
>> I made checks of all the options in Edit -> Preferences, and also in
>> about:config, and I don't see anything that would be like
>> "Promptforexit" that is offered.
>>
>> Is there something I'm missing, or does that function simply not exist?
>>
>
> Seems to me, with a new profile and more then one tab open, closing
> the browser gives a popup asking if you are sure. It also has a
> checkbox to stop that behaviour which most of us probably click. I
> know I do and then forget about it.
> Should be a setting to turn it back on somewhere. Might have to test
> with a new profile and compare prefs.js with it working and not
> working.
> Dave


IIRC the built-in behaviour (i.e. with no extensions changing it) is
that the popup will be shown unless SeaMonkey is set to save tabs on
quit and reopen them when started.

-- 
Nuno Silva

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