[Bug 230102]

[Patheticcockroach-b]

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (email gavin at gavinsharp.com) from comment #183)
> This bug has outlived its usefulness - our current warning behavior is
> weighed towards not warning, but allowing session restore if needed. If
> there are specific issues those are best dealt with in narrower bugs.
I agree that it works (if I create a brand new profile it does), but I do have an old profile (my main one, actually) where it doesn't. Still haven't figured out what's wrong with it, I just ended up getting used to not having the warning while the options pretend I do. Still "our current warning behavior is weighed towards not warning, but allowing session restore if needed" doesn't make sense with regards to the problem: either the option "warn me when closing multiple tabs" is respected or it isn't. Just because session restore works okay doesn't mean it's okay to disrespect the warning option...

Actually, just before hitting post I had another quick look at the bug report and noticed this in comment #2:
"The relevant prefs are:

browser.startup.page != 3  (3 means "restart with last tabs")
browser.warnOnQuit = true (means you haven't bypassed that warning)"
That seems damned wrong, browser.startup.page should not influence whether or not browser.warnOnQuit is respected: I want my session to be restored but I also want a warning when closing my session, because like it or not the session restore isn't perfect, particularly with some dynamic forms field with JavaScript that will usually lose what you typed if you close and restore them.

If you really want to enforce that stupid behavior on purpose (while it
is so easy for the user to configure it themselves - or not!), at least
please uncheck and disable the "warn me when closing multiple tabs"
option when startup is configured to restore the previous session, so
the world will know this is a sabotage and not some obscure black magic
with a 6 year old bug report that was never fixed because "it's not a
bug it's a feature from the same kind of genius who thinks the Windows
8.0 UI is great and the users who don't agree suck"...

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  No warning when closing multiple tabs

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