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by coldpie 4345 days ago
And yet, to this day, Firefox has both Ctrl-Q (close all Firefox windows without prompting) and its neighbor Ctrl-W (close current tab) and refuses to change that or provide remappable keyboard shortcuts. One of the biggest UI failures I'm aware of in 2014.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821

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This in combination with "Restore all tabs on startup" not being the default is a disaster.

The first thing I do on a new Firefox installation is enable "Restore all tabs on startup".

Even without that flag enabled, you can restore all tabs when closing/reopening Firefox. History > Restore Closed tabs.
Thanks, good to know.
This is in all apps in OS X, that's the standard keymapping.
Ctrl-Q exits on Thunderbird too. Since in MS Outlook that combination marks a mail as read, for keyboard-heavy users switching between the two, it is no fun.