Bill says "Why isn't Ctrl+F mapped to forward?"
Developer hears "Bill wants this mapped to Ctrl+F. I'd better it do it or I'm fired."
Bill means "Please map this to forward, unless there is a really good reason otherwise, in which case I expect you not map it to forward, but tell me the reason why not."
No I believe that he meant exactly that and even then he wouldn't "have been convinced". The engineers never are (about usability issues)
Is this a Linux thing?
I do accidentally close Firefox from time to time, though: The problem is that Shift-Control-W is "close window" instead of "close tab". Which makes sense, but sometimes I hit it by mistake, typically when I mean to hit Shift-Control-T. Don't know there's anything they could do to fix that.
But this is worse. Pressing Command+W in Skype chat asks if you want to remove person from your favourites. At one specific version it actually closed the window. Go figure.
Though considering "close window" is so disruptive when you hit it by accident, an optional "close the window?" dialog would be nice.