1511167 - File | close not working if another tab is open

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[mauriz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Open the Tools | Add-ons menu
then try CMD-W (on mac) to close the main mail windows


Actual results:

the CMD-W command does nothing


Expected results:

the main window should have close

Comment 1

[mauriz]

if i close the Tools | Add-ons window, the CMD-W command works

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Flore, can you reproduce this?

Comment 3

[Flore Allemandou [:flore]]

Hello,

I can reproduce this on 60 release on Mac OS High Sierra. Actually, you can't close the main window (or rather the main tab) using CMD-W if there is another tab open (be it Add-ons menu, calendar, tasks or an email)

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

regression?

Comment 5

[Benjamin Flanagin]

I can confirm a similar result in the Linux build (60 and the newest daily build.) as well. If multiple tabs are open, and the focus is on the mail tab hitting ctrl+F4 (cmd+w on macOS) does nothing. However, if you change focus to any other tabs other the tab closes as expected on hotkey-press. Once all tabs are closed and only the main mail tab is left open the program will close at the press of the hotkey. I will need to find an earlier version than 60 to see if this is indeed a regression, it is however less than ideal from a user standpoint.

The current work around is to select the last open tab in Thunderbird and using the cmd+w (ctrl+F4) until all tabs and the program closes.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Flanagin]

Quick update, this happens in the 68 beta3 as well.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

cmd+Q is quits (closes) the main window for me, from add-ons as well. I would not expect cmd+W to close the window.

Eckard, is this your expectation, and experience, as well?

Ref https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts

Comment 8

[Eckard Berberich]

Cmd + Q not only closes the window but at the same time the application Thunderbird, independently of the active Thunderbird window. This is standard for almost any application on macOS.
Cmd + W only closes the active Thunderbird window but not Thunderbird itself, whether the active window is the main window, a compose window, a tab or the address book window.
A click on the red dot in the upper left corner of any window of most applications also closes the window but does not close Thunderbird.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Using daily build File | close and cmd-W closes tab for me which is expected.