288859 - If I File-> Close Mozilla it closes all versions of itself in the taskbar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[ron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

Not fatal - but means I have to keep re-opening windows that I have minimized
and have in the task bar

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select FILE
2. Select CLOSE
3.

Actual Results:  
Window closes but so does the two other instances of Mozilla that I had
minimized and that were in the task bar

Expected Results:  
Close only the effected window

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

This is probably a Dup, and probably outside the scope of Bugzilla.

Windows people aren't used to being able to quit applications full stop.

If you find it a bad idea, you should ask for the quit (exit?) item to be
removed from the menu, so that you can close tabs/windows but not quit
the application in one go. There are probably a lot of people who agree
with you.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

WFM with Mozilla 1.8b1 and Mozilla 1.7.7RC, File>Close (Ctrl+W) only closes the
window from which it was called, as it should. Choosing File>Exit (Ctrl+Q) will
close all open Mozilla windows. Could you try to reproduce this bug with a more
recent Mozilla version?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Alex Tanner]

I see what you mean here. This happens in the latest stable release of Firefox
(1.0.7). Probably the best plan is to disable the File->Close action when no
websites are open in the current browser window, and make File->Exit only close
the current instance of the browser.

Comment 5

[Ben Fowler]

See Bug 39057 "Confirmation alert ("dialog") when choosing File > Quit | Exit"
(warning, approaching 200 comments).

See my comment 1 , I hesitate to lay down the law on useability on someone 
else's platform, but I would be surprised if your proposal were accepted 
without modification.

If the application is in a 'not quittable' state (there are hidden windows,
downloads or print jobs) then the Quit or Exit item should be greyed out
(disabled) or removed.

Alternatively/additionally Quit should be transparent: there should be an
effective "Where You Were" on application start ...

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes, File->Quit closes all windows
File->Close Tab closes the current tab and File->Close Window closes the window

It's unlikely to change.  WONTFIXing

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 329732 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***