Ctrl + Q inderectly conflicts with Ctrl + W which is used to close tabs, in that sense it’s easy to accidentally hit the former and kill your entire browsing session, all windows included. Navigating only with the mouse massively slows down my workflow. There are at least the browser.sessionstore.w…

Again, not a direct answer, but Firefox can be set to warn (and by default does) about open tabs – which prevents the Ctrl + Q hotkey from closing the application on its own. [215752f3fc4ac607fc0d6921642f9994991326af.png] The related about:config preferences (to true) are: browser.tabs.warnOnClo…

How to disable the quit (Ctrl + Q) hotkey for Firefox?

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rele (Adje Knol) October 11, 2020, 6:31am 2

Not an answer to your question but I use ctrl-F4 to close tabs.

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How to disable the quit (Ctrl + Q) hotkey for Firefox?

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