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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by fav_collector on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:33PM (#14806678)
I agree although ctrl+shift+q is still suboptimal because ctrl+shift+tab is right next to it.
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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by olejorgenb on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:05PM (#14806946)
I don't get why closing the whole window need a shortcut at all.. Doesn't most OSes have a generic hotkey for that?
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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by reitanqild on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:59PM (#14807395)
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.)

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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by jhasse on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:16PM (#14807044)
It actually closes all Firefox windows. The generic hotkey for closing one window would be Alt+F4.

I definitely think that this should be handled by the OS though.

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