Firefox won't warn me when closing muliple tabs

[Dany M]

I think it was my brother who chose that option. I look at preferences and it is checked to warn me but it doesn't. Can anyone help?

 

[riscy]

Try this:

Preferences >Tabs> Warn me when closing multiple tabs.

If that does not work, then wait for Clevin to get here and advise you about the about:config part of FF

 

[Dany M]

Try this:

Preferences >Tabs> Warn me when closing multiple tabs.

If that does not work, then wait for Clevin to get here and advise you about the about:config part of FF

Yeah that does not work at all

 

[riscy]

As the second part of my post said, wait for Clevin - the FF guru to see your post, and he will have a solution.

Very cute.

@riscy
Yeah that does not work at all

 

[Dany M]

Yeah, I have noticed that he is very knowledgeable of firefox

 

[clevin]

thanks for the compliment guys

First indeed make sure you check the checkbox as riscy mentioned (there are two checkboxes start with same description, so be sure you checked the right one.

2nd, do you have any extension installed? Since there are some extensions (such as TMP) who will take over the session saver function from browser default.

 

[Dany M]

All I have is download statusbar, download helper, download them all, enhanced forcastfox, and noscript...I am also on firefox 3 RC1

 

[Dany M]

Ok, when I close a window with multiple tabs it warns me, when I quit firefox it does not warn me...weird...can any one help??

Also i want firefox to save my session when i have multiple tabs open, can anyone help with that?

 

[ZiggyPastorius]

Well, if I may step in...I'd recommend using The Greatest Browser On The Planet, as it does all those things by default, and is much better.

 

[clevin]

Ok, when I close a window with multiple tabs it warns me, when I quit firefox it does not warn me...weird...can any one help??

Also i want firefox to save my session when i have multiple tabs open, can anyone help with that?

preference->general

 

[mckyvlle]

I have the same problem here with Firefox 3 RC1.

See this bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419009.

From what I understand, if the tabs/window can be restored from a saved session, then you will not be asked to confirm to quit. If the tabs/window cannot be restored, then you will get a close-window warning.

So, say if you quit Firefox, all tabs and windows are saved as a session, so you will not be warned about open tabs. But if you only close one window, the session-saving thing is not triggered, and therefore you are warned about closing multiple tabs.


I do hope they bring back the old Firefox 2 behaviour where you are warned about closing multiple tabs regardless of whether they can be restored from a saved session. Firefox 3 might be "t3h snappy", but it's not fun having to see all your tabs being reloaded.

 

[Dany M]

preference->general

Maybe it was an add-on but when closing multiple tabs by pressing the red X or Quiting it it would ask me to save the session....