Don't ever Quit Safari again

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I always have a hundred tabs and windows open in Safari. I know, it's a sickness.

You can imagine how AWFUL it feels when instead of hitting cmd-w to close an individual tab, I accidentally type cmd-q and quit the whole application. AWFUL! DEPRESSING!

But I found out that you can remap any keyboard shortcut in OS X. I set it so cmd-Q does ... wait for it... NOTHING!

Try it at home:

  1. Bring up the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane.
  2. Hit the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
  3. Click the + icon.
  4. Select Safari from the Application menu.
  5. In the Menu Title box, enter the exact text "Quit Safari".
  6. In the Keyboard Shortcut box, enter a new shortcut (for instance, Command-Option-Q).
  7. Click Add.

Now you no longer need to suffer as I have.

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And what do we do if the Keyboard Shortcut field won't let us type in it?

Josh Berezin said:

Hmm... I went back and fooled with it, and it will let me type in anything that's a key combination, like control-q or option-something or command-something. Straight characters don't work, of course, but I don't think that's what you're trying...

Oh, maybe this is it: It won't let you put something in that's already taken. Try something more obscure.

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