Re:Firefox marketshare revisited
by fav_collector on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:33PM
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I agree although ctrl+shift+q is still suboptimal because ctrl+shift+tab is right next to it.
Re:Firefox marketshare revisited
by olejorgenb on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:05PM
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I don't get why closing the whole window need a shortcut at all.. Doesn't most OSes have a generic hotkey for that?
Re:Firefox marketshare revisited
by reitanqild on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:59PM
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Edit: I see now that jhasse answered most of this already but I think mine adds some details so I'll leave it here.
I think alt-f4 closes the window while ctrl-q closes down Firefox entirely (in my KDE setup at least.)
On Windows ctrl-q doesn't work for me though.
As for why I sometimes use it it is because I can then do a restore session after restarting Firefox and get back everything.
(On Windows I have to find the now hidden menu and select Quit Firefox or something like that.)
There's a bug report about it with lots of duplicates and 71 votes. I use Ctrl+W to close tabs, so losing work in other tabs is just one key away. For me, it isn't nitpicky.
> having a flashier UI would address and (potentially) attract more users.
You don't know that though. You think it will attract more users.
You'll need some kind of metric to know what people really want. "Gets often repeated in discussions" is one, "which bug reports get voted on" is another.