<![CDATA[Please remove the key combo that closes every open window without confirmation]]>I have no idea what the combination is because I've only ever accidentally hit it, but I've hit it a couple times now. It closes every single open browser window and opens up an old window that had been closed minutes if not hours earlier. Without any confirmation whatsoever. It just happens.

I have lost work because of this.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/72711/please-remove-the-key-combo-that-closes-every-open-window-without-confirmationRSS for NodeMon, 09 Mar 2026 13:17:13 GMTMon, 01 Jul 2024 19:50:11 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Please remove the key combo that closes every open window without confirmation on Fri, 09 May 2025 05:58:49 GMT]]>@Rafferty3231 You aren't an idiot. This is shitty design. It's literally a key right next to the backspace button that closes all of your tabs without warning, and for some reason it's enabled by default. I just lost about an hour of my time and 4 important paragraphs asking legal advice because I fatfingers the f12 key while trying to press backspace. You can disable this "feature" here (opera://settings/keyboardShortcuts) if you want too.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/384458https://forums.opera.com/post/384458Fri, 09 May 2025 05:58:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please remove the key combo that closes every open window without confirmation on Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:25:00 GMT]]>@rafferty3231 said in Please remove the key combo that closes every open window without confirmation:

maybe it just grabbed a random URL from browsing history for the new window?

It should have randomly picked one of the links listed at the URL opera://settings/panic_button_settings.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/354793https://forums.opera.com/post/354793Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:25:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please remove the key combo that closes every open window without confirmation on Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:26:41 GMT]]>@rafferty3231 It happens to a lot of users, so you're not alone.

The trouble is that Opera doesn't give you a "You've triggered Panic Mode by pressing F12..." the first time you use it.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/354792https://forums.opera.com/post/354792Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:26:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please remove the key combo that closes every open window without confirmation on Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:22:25 GMT]]>Oh my god I'm such an idiot.. I didn't even know panic mode was a thing.

I think my confusion stemmed from the fact that all my open tabs disappeared from the taskbar as well. I figured they were closed, not just hidden. I've also never set any panic mode options, so I think maybe it just grabbed a random URL from browsing history for the new window?

Anyway, thank you very much for the information! I respectfully withdraw my request sir. I'm not sure how I fat-fingered F12, but that's the behavior for sure. It's Opera GX on Windows 10 Pro, in case you still want that information.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/354791https://forums.opera.com/post/354791Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:22:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please remove the key combo that closes every open window without confirmation on Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:00:21 GMT]]>If you're using Opera GX and you're talking about F12 (not a combo though), you can goto the URL opera://settings/keyboardShortcuts and remove F12 from the Panic Button command.

You can also disable the panic button feature itself by going to the URL opera://settings/panic_button_settings and disabling it. And, if you really want, you can disable the "Panic Button" flag at the URL opera://flags/#panic-button.

But, while panic mode will hide all windows and show up its own window, that window won't be an old window and will be a window with the link specified in the panic mode settings. And, you just press F12 to get out of it and bring your windows back.

Besides that, I can't think of a single function in Opera that would close all windows and open up some old window. Hitting ctrl + shift + t first might restore a tab that was in an old window and then hitting alt + tab to switch to the next Opera window and then alt + F4 to close that window and then repeating might do something like that. But, I don't that's what you're doing.

Regular Opera or Opera GX? What operating system?

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