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For example, it only took 20 years (!!) to stop Ctrl+Q from quitting Firefox on Linux. :)

IIRC, a couple of patches did get submitted, but never accepted for unknown reasons.

Isn't Ctrl-Q quitting the program normal and expected behavior? For example, right now on Firefox 111, I can see in the File menu that the "Quit" option has the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Q. I'm fairly sure it works.

On linux, I'd want it to be dictated by my DE or WM. I have Super+shift+q set to close windows on my machine, so I wouldn't be crazy about software adding its own keybind to do the same.

It is a very common binding.

Thank you, I was wondering why it stopped working, but never took the time to investigate... :D

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