How do I set Safari 5 to ask before closing multiple tabs?

Now I lose websites when the window is inadvertently closed.

Several alternatives...

If you close a window or quit Safari, when you relaunch Safari go to the menu bar click History > Reopen All Windows From Last Session.

And since you are running Lion you can enable the Lion "resume" feature.

Open System Preferences > General

Select: Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps

Not sure, I don't see the option either. It may be because now in Lion, if you quit an app, it will "resume" when you open it again.

Regardless, I myself have moved on to Chrome. That browser does give the option to warn before quitting at least. Chrome is basically Safari except it's even leener and more forward-looking.

You may also want to look in to Firefox. I prefer it to Safari too, and that for sure has an option to warn before closing multiple tabs.

I'm not sure what you mean about Firefox's tabs not showing up, unless you mean that you had like 30 open tabs, in which case it may not handle it as well as some other browsers. But on that note, another cool feature that is unique to Firefox is that there is a button you can push which shows all the thumbnails of all the open tabs, and you can organize these too.

That shouldn't be happening...Try to go to ~Library/Application Support/Firefox and delete that folder. Then open Firefox and everything should be fresh. Then download Firefox 9 from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ and install it. Then open Firefox, and everything should be fresh, including a functioning tab bar.

If you close a window or quit Safari, when you relaunch Safari go to the menu bar click History > Reopen All Windows From Last Session.

And since you are running Lion you can enable the Lion "resume" feature.

Open System Preferences > General

Select: Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps

This does not restore the page scroll position, the playback times of videos, etc

Just installed new updates for Safari 5.1.5 and still Safari doesn't ask before closing multiple tabs, what gives, is anyoneat Apple listening

I suspect this is the iPhone crew forcing my desktop computer to look like a phone.

News Flash: My desktop Mac is NOT A PHONE. STOP RUINING IT.

Anyone have any solution?

Is Apple listening? Resuming is not at all the same as avoiding an accidental quit!!!

Command+w (close tab command) is right next to command+q (quit safari); for some of us, that warning before quitting is crucial for avoiding accidents!

Apple, please think of all the things that can't be resumed: email login, anything requiring login, text entry, audio playback, video playback. Now recognize that resume isn't sufficient for a great many uses. It's ridiculous. Also, please recognize that when we DO mean to quit safari, we don't want to sit there while Safari tries to load all of the windows I had open the last time. It's backwards!!

AT LEAST GIVE US THE OPTION!!!

Please.

Thanks.

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.

Thank you evenhuis! This is a hack work-around, but totally serves the purpose! For the past few months, I've been accidentally command+Q closing Safari every couple of days when meaning to hit command+W, but no longer.

I couldn't find a way to change Safari's settings so I remapped the Quit command to Option+Q in System Preferences -> Keyboard. See evenhuis posting above.