"Warning you are about to close multiple tabs" has disappeared. Where is it?

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I'm on Firefox. When I have more than one tab open I get a warning if I hit the red cross in top r/h corner. Can be very useful.

This morning it has disappeared. I've trawled 'tinterweb and got thoroughly confused with the geek speak. Don't really understand what they are saying.

Anyone on here know how to get this warning back? I'm not the bravest when it comes to messing about in the registry so please be gentle with me!
 
If you search around in Google you will see that this is a bug in Firefox. None that I have read has a definitive solution though.
 
open up the firefox and in the url field type about:config and hit enter


find a line called: browser.showQuitWarning and see if it's "true" or "false"

make sure it's "true" (double click on it if it's "false" or right click and choose toggle)

let me know how you get on
 
asaspasas6 said:
open up the firefox and in the url field type about:config and hit enter


find a line called: browser.showQuitWarning and see if it's "true" or "false"

make sure it's "true" (double click on it if it's "false" or right click and choose toggle)

let me know how you get on
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This is inconsistent. I just tried it and regardless of that being set to true or false I can also no longer see the warning. I think it's a recognised bug. It seems related to the option to re-open with the last used tabs.

This has some more info:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1009662

This shows a work-around:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419009#c142
 
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asaspasas6 said:
open up the firefox and in the url field type about:config and hit enter


find a line called: browser.showQuitWarning and see if it's "true" or "false"

make sure it's "true" (double click on it if it's "false" or right click and choose toggle)

let me know how you get on
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Thanks I've done that. I now get a message asking if I want to save my tabs for next time I open. That's not really what I had before, but at least it saves me accidentally closing all my tabs.

I've been in Google and there does seem to be some problem with this setting especially in Firefox.
 
Looking further it appears that the browser.showQuitWarning takes precedence over the browser.WarnOnQuit line.

However I set the showQuitWarning I cannot get the WarnOnQuit line to be active. When I change this to user set it defaults to false. I cannot set it to true.

Sounds like a glitch has hit the system and the Save on Quit display is all I will ever get now. It's better than nothing and no doubt I'll get used to it in time.
Thanks for your help.
 
you could just simple export all your stuff (bookmarks etc) and try to re-install firefox

but before remove it with something like revo uninstaller (to remove registry entries etc)

just a suggestion?
 
asaspasas6 said:
you could just simple export all your stuff (bookmarks etc) and try to re-install firefox

but before remove it with something like revo uninstaller (to remove registry entries etc)

just a suggestion?
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That sounds to be above my pay grade!
 
it maybe was trigered (maybe) if you closed tabs by unticking "warn me next time you try to close more than 1 tab" sort of thing?
 
asaspasas6 said:
it maybe was trigered (maybe) if you closed tabs by unticking "warn me next time you try to close more than 1 tab" sort of thing?
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Don't remember seeing anything like that. It would be different from what had happened before.
I'm not going to get too involved. I've got a warning albeit different from what I had before. That will do me.
 
Re Firefox ... is anyone finding TP pages slow to load, I mean finish loading and jumping to the appropriate place on the page?

I'm not having this problem on other sites, and Chrome opens TP pages much more quickly.

Only had this FF/TP incompatibility since updating to Windows 10 :banghead:
 
I've found Firefox to have slowed down a lot in all respects. I now use Chrome most of the time which is far quicker.

Still on Windows 7, but goodness knows what gets updated without knowing!

AL
 
Al1944 said:
I've found Firefox to have slowed down a lot in all respects. I now use Chrome most of the time which is far quicker.

Still on Windows 7, but goodness knows what gets updated without knowing!

AL
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I've just switched back to chrome after using firefox. Talk about night and day, hadn't realised how bad firefox had got. Netflix had become almost unusable, very jerky video but sound was ok. Nice and smooth on chrome.
 
Chrome "looks ahead" so most of the next url's are cached, hence the apparent speed increase.

Partly the reason commecial netorks don't like it used on a domain as it loads the network with broadcasts.
 
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