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by dedward 5704 days ago
Most browsers warn you if you are about to close multiple tabs.... I guess chrome doesn't? Weird.

That would be an implementation problem for chrome - every other OSX application tends to properly warn you if you are about to close multiple context windows with cmd-q.

EDIT: Just researching a bit- this seems to be a conflict between the Chromium design goals and the OSX UI guidelines... the Chrome team absolutely refuses to add a warning dialog if you try to close multiple tabs, but it would be the expected behaviour on OSX.

I tend to fall on the side of OSX - part of what makes it great is UI consistency - and this is one case where Chromium is making things worse, not better.
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abraham 5704 days ago
The latest developer version of Chrome (9.x) has an experimental warning dialog in "about:flags".
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_delirium 5704 days ago
Interesting that they gave in and added it, since they've been WONTFIXing requests to make it even a non-default option for over two years: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=147
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shrikant 5704 days ago
Where? I have 9.0.570.1 on Windows 7 (32-bit) and I don't see such an option in the about:flags.

The only flag relating to tabs I can see is the first one to put the tabs down the side.

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abraham 5704 days ago
The flag is "Confirm to Quite". It might be Mac (v 9.0.572.1) only right now as I don't see it in Linux (v 9.0.570.1).
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thisisblurry 5704 days ago
I'm 99% certain that this is a Mac-only option for now. It might make it's way into the other OS builds, but I don't think it is currently set up for them.
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shrikant 5704 days ago
Might be a v9.0.572.1 only option, and that version seems to have only made its way to Macs as yet. Windows and Linux seem to be at v9.0.570.1 still.
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zandor 5704 days ago
I've got v9.0.577.0 running on Linux and I don't have it either.
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erikano 5704 days ago
I think that the best approach would be do have a warning as default, except from in "Incognito" mode - that way, people who feel a need to quickly close the browser can use Incognito mode or disable the warning and the rest of us avoid troublesome accidental closing of the browser.
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