301806 - Independent sessions of Firefox 1.0.6 are closed when one session closes through the exit command.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

If several sessions of Firefox 1.0.6 are open (with different web sites), all of
them are closed when any session closes through File->Exit.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open some sessions of firefox 1.0.6
2. in ay of them do: File->Exit
3. all sessions are closed

Actual Results:  
all sessions are closed.

Expected Results:  
one session should be closed, no all of them.

Comment 1

[Aaron Slunt]

Wouldn't be surprised if this is a dupe, but...wow, can't believe I can confirm
this.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050722
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005072212

Comment 2

[Aaron Slunt]

I take that back...there is a Close Window option in there, so I guess exit is
really intended to do this (which is plain dumb. IMO, that should be changed).

Let's see what a dev says about this.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

This is expected behaviour. File->Exit (or Quit) closes the *application*.
Mozilla/Firefox doesn't have a concept of "sessions" like Internet Explorer
(meaning that each window is a separate entity with separate cookies etc ...),
so all windows will close. See bug 117222 for a side-effect of this, with more info.

The big issue is that closing a window is not the same as closing a process.