279507 - Can't quit, must use Force Quit (Alt-Cmd-Esc, then click on force quit)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Migneron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050122 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050122 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

Trying to quit TBird Trunk from either the menu or keyboard doesn't work !

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to click quit on the Tunderbird menu
2. Try to use the keyboard (cmd-q)
3.

Actual Results:  
From the menu the menu header stays Blue
From the Keybord, it blinks blue and then comes back normal

Expected Results:  
Well, of course, the app should quit !

No themes and no extensions installed

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[guinan]

I have the newest version of Tiger, and Thunderbird Version 1.0.7 (20050923).

I have created two IMAP Accounts and one POP.

Sometimes, not always, Thunderbird won't quit without apparent reason.
The Thunderbird Window disappears, however, the program is still running (there is still the mark in the 
dock).
Thunderbird can only be closed by force, pressing the apple,ctrl,esc!

Mostly all this happens if multiple programs are running in the background.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I have the newest version of Tiger, and Thunderbird Version 1.0.7 (20050923).
> 

try upgrading to Thunderbird 1.5 beta 2

Comment 4

[Nir]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I have created two IMAP Accounts and one POP.

> Thunderbird can only be closed by force, pressing the apple,ctrl,esc!

Open Account Settings .
goto 'Server settings' of IMAP account , uncheck 'Cleanup Inbox on Exit'.

Restart TB and check

Comment 5

[John-Michael Fischer]

I'm running ff 2.0.0.2 on gentoo and doing file quit does not work.  The titlebar flashes and it just sits there.

The trick is that I have a second firefox window open on my third X desktop.  In that instance of FF, it asks me whether or not i actually want to quit and close multiple tabs.  The issue is obviously that I asked the instance of ff to quit on desktop 1 and not the instance on desktop 3.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > I have the newest version of Tiger, and Thunderbird Version 1.0.7 (20050923).
> 
> try upgrading to Thunderbird 1.5 beta 2

Wayne, see comment 3 and 4.  Fixed, or dependent on setting?

Comment 7

[Wayne Woods]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Wayne, see comment 3 and 4.  Fixed, or dependent on setting?

Unfortunately I don't have an IMAP account with which to test comment 4, but I certainly don't see this bug with POP. Given the severe age of this bug, and the lack of technical details I'd be tempted to resolve it regardless. If anyone can actually reproduce it using IMAP with Inbox cleanup active, a proper descriptive bug about that can be opened.

The only alternative is that it's a dupe of bug 353792 (can't quit due to having a huge number of mail folders), but there's not much use checking since the reporter of this one hasn't commented in over two and a half years.