Closing multiple tabs in safari

All the good programmers have been moved to iPhone etc

I agree, so many thinks in Lion are worse than before. Moving to 64-bit OS might be part of the reason, many things re-written? But why change the user experience?

Sad.

I finally found this solution from user evenhuisafter more than a year of this annoyance.

As detailed here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3685337?answerId=20021865022#20021865022

You can follow this workaround:

Not exactly what is wanted, but it is possible to disable ⌘Q in Safari. I rarely quit Safari so losing this feature is a minor inconvenience compared to the occasional rage-inducing accidental quit.

1. Go to System Preference > Keyboard.
2. Choose Keyboard Shortcuts
3. Click Application Shortcuts
4. Press the + button
5. Under Application choose Safari
6. For Menu Title input "Bring All to Front". (You could use some other innocuous menu option here)
7. For Short Cut use ⌘Q

This remaps the ⌘Q, thereby avoiding quitting if your fingers miss ⌘W.

good workaround! 😎

but you still can press on Close button (RED)

Usually I make this mistake 😕

I used to have that option you are showing in the window 'confirm before closing multiple tabs or windows'. Unfortunately, once I upgraded to Mavericks, Safari upgraded to 7.0.1 which no longer offers that option in the preference window. Is there another way to do it?

G'day Lex

tried your iTweax download from Maverick link ( why oh why did I update from SL, I LOVED it, HATE Maverick ) and unfortunately doesn't work when you tick the "confirm when closing multiple tabs" box. Would have thought since it is there on a Maverick download it would work, but, no, it doesn't .... shame. No I don't want to use Firefox, I don't like it like I like Safari.

For anyone that sees this in 2015 or beyond, it appears that now you go to Preferences under the SAFARI tab (not the Apple icon's preferences. Under General you can select to have the session restored. That doesn't warn you before shutting down, but it will allow you to re-open to where you left off.

It is now 2016, and Apple still has not publicly documented or fixed the Safari Preferences flip-flop bug. Evidently, Apple engineering and development are not experiencing the performance hit that has plagued the apparently voiceless Apple end users for years.

There are only, and always only three options in listed Safari Preferences > Tabs. There should be four Preferences, but for unknown reason (s) when we adjust system settings like System Preferences > Keyboard and select option "Use all F1...", the thrird option does a flip-flop. Disclaimer! This is not a declaration that any particular preference/app/occult or whatever is causing the Safari Preferences flip-flop bug. I am just mentioning the Keyboard preference option to show that other parts of the system might be related. Apple has to sort that out, and finally fix the Safari Preferences flip-flop bug.

Here's how everyone knows their Mac is effected. Install OS X (boot-Option, boot-Option-R, online or using a USB stick), and then observe. Safari Preferences start out like this.

Then for unknown reason (s), Safari Preferences for Tabs third option changes from "Confirm before closing..." to "Use ⌘-1 through...".

APPLE! We often for valid security purposes (system development, press freedom in war zones, and enforcement interfaces) must constantly wipe Safari History, and yes, every day the performance from the missing "Confirm before closing..." takes a massive hit.

Suggest always available four (4) Safari > Preferences > Tabs options.

1. ⌘-click opens a link in a new tab.
2. When a new tab or window opens, make it active.
3. Confirm before closing multiple tabs or windows.
4. Use ⌘-1 through ⌘-9 to switch tabs.

For long enough that it takes you to fix this bug, eyes off programming and development hit or otherwise: there is an Office and Home performance hit. For now, provide public sharing in Apple Support Tutorial: please, tell us how to flip-flop always only three Safari Preferences Tabs options manually using Terminal? Or anything else to help! TIA.