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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.
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).
Huh? I never had that problem and do actually like it that way. Train yourself to use the middle finger for "W" and the ring finger for pressing "Q" and the problem vanishes. It will still happen to you perhaps once per month, but I can live with that.
The reason it's not normally a problem is that if you're working on a document and you hit ⌘Q (or ⌘W for that matter) you will be prompted to save your changes. However, this does become a problem in web browsers and file browsers where there are no changes to save. Apparently in the early days of OS X the NEXTSTEP guys wanted to add a ⌘Q shortcut to Finder, which would log you out of OS X. As the story goes, some pe…
I'm willing to bet the author is either A) not a touch typist or B) Comes from Windows/Linux. It's not the author's fault, of course, but it has been around since 1984 and it's unlikely to change. The 'native' way to type commands on a Mac is using your thumb to press Command and your pinky to press Q, or your ring finger to press W. It feels awfully weird pressing Q with your ring finger. Window/Linux users use the…
I use the thumb on left-cmd and a ring finger on either q or w (never thought about it... maybe I use the pinky sometimes) - and I don't recall ever making a mistake, although I suspect that may partially be because I primarily use safari, and it warns me if I try to close multiple tabs or a single tab/window with form data filled out.
And everyone should hopefully be mapping capslock to ctrl.... that just saves all kinds of hassle down the road.
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Stop using qwerty.
But then C-q C-j is too close to C-q C-x.
Just to name two: I heard Colemak is nice, and I also tried learning Neo for a while. (Neo is especially suited for German.) I am using Dvorak at the moment.
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 ref…
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I think the Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut to reopen closed tabs works across sessions too.
That's the one feature that's definitly missing from Safari. (Safari only just now learned to re-open the last tab with Command-Z. All the other tabs you'll have to search for yourself in the recently closed pages-menu.)
The reason it's not normally a problem is that if you're working on a document and you hit ⌘Q (or ⌘W for that matter) you will be prompted to save your changes. However, this does become a problem in web browsers and file browsers where there are no changes to save. Apparently in the early days of OS X the NEXTSTEP guys wanted to add a ⌘Q shortcut to Finder, which would log you out of OS X. As the story goes, some pe…
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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).
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.