278091 - closing a multiple homepages window should not ask for confirm

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[philippe Errembault]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

There is no point in asking confirmation when you close a multiple tabs window
where all tabs (but the current one) where from a homepage or empty (either
because we have a multiple tab home page, or because we created new tabs - empty
or loaded with homepage.)

The confirm dialog should come only when any tab other than the current one has
seen is content changed. 

We cannot just test if the "back" arrow is active, because the dialog must also
appear when we have manually filled the address field, which doesn't activate
the "back arrow" in the case the tab was previously empty.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.configure a multiple homepage (ex :
http://www.google.be/fr|http://www.yahoo.fr ) and optionnally close firefox
2.open a new browser window or launch Firefox
3.Close the newly opened window


Actual Results:  
Confirm dialog appears when there nothing to save in the window

Expected Results:  
Windows should close without asking confirmation, like when there is no more
than one homepage.

My mail is currently broken. I wont receive any answer (and I have refused any
follow up to avoid my mail box exploding)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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