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I love it when I Cmd+Q Chrome. Love it.

August 11, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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Seriously. If ever there were something that needed a prompt. - Paul Buchheit

What do you love about it? - Gabe

I love seeing all 30+ tabs reopening and slowly reloading... searching through them all to find the YouTube videos i want to watch later that i have to pause... and most of all, I love bitching about it as much as i bitch about TicketBastard (though with much less vitriol). - Dan Hsiao

I keep enough tabs open that Chrome crashes (or locks up my mac) trying to restore the all simultaneously. They should load them 2 or 3 at a time. - Paul Buchheit

That's why I don't like tabbed browsers -- it's almost never what I want. - Gabe

Having a millions windows would be much worse Gabe. Chrome's tab problems are pretty easily fixable: don't exit on Cmd+Q, and restore more sequentially. - Paul Buchheit

typical conversation between Mac users? - 落后青年李三海

CMD- Q is a universal OS X thing. Just don't use it to close chrome :D - Gunnyman™

How do you close it then if not via CMD-Q? - ronin from iPhone

We have a plan! Now we just need someone to execute it: http://code.google.com/p... - Brian Rakowski

Is that a plan? It looks more like a long dumb argument. The anti-dialog people are wrong and should be ignored. If your computer had a self-destruct button, I'm pretty sure it would include a "are you sure you want to destroy your computer?" dialog. - Paul Buchheit

file/close @ronnin - Gunnyman™

Isn't that the same thing? Are there different close behaviors for one and the other? - ronin from iPhone

Paul, if you scroll to the bottom, you can see what we actually plan to do. - Brian Rakowski

Ok, the planned solution sounds fine, but if nobody is going to actually implement that, you should just put in a dialog box. - Paul Buchheit

I started using Session Manager and TooManyTabs extensions because I tend to kill Chrome with 30+ tabs open. I'd really like to see sessions be synced like bookmarks, so I could go from home to work and vice versa and all my tabs would just be there. - John

Modal dialogs aren't categorically awful: they were designed to confirm a user wants to proceed with an action from which there is no undo (e.g. this scenario). When usability is at least in no small part based on users' expectations, their proposed solution is pretty awful. - Mark Trapp

What I do: change it to something else with System Preferences → Keyword → Keyboard Shortcuts → + Google Chrome / Quit Google Chrome / ⌥⌘Q - Amit Patel

The latest release of Chrome (6.0.472.33) seems to load up tabs much quicker than previously. - ronin

'Window Close Protector' extension? - Gabe

I'm with Paul on this one. Give users a confirm dialog on ⌘Q. Make sure that keyboard shortcuts work on that dialog w/ the default being whatever users do most (I suspect cancel is more common). I'm also happy with the ideas of ⌥⌘Q or ⇧⌘Q forcing a close w/o a dialog (I've seen this pattern elsewhere) and possibly not asking if very few windows/tabs are open (3 or less). - Michael Leggett

Anything that both Paul and Michael agree on is good for the world. Make it happen. - Louis Gray

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