303385 - Closing last browser window should close all FF related windows like the exit command

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mugros]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050803 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050803 Firefox/1.0+

I would prefer Firefox to close all Firefox related windows if i close the last
browser window. So the last "close window" command is an the "exit" command.

Maybe this could be realized as an option, if you prefer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open extensions window, bookmark manager and so on
2. close the FF browser window


Actual Results:  
the windows openend in step 1 are not closed

Expected Results:  
the windows openend in step 1 should be closed

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

The bookmark window, extension window, etc ... are not dialog boxes, but
separate windows on the same level as your browse window.

Comment 2

[Mugros]

I never said that these are dialog boxes, i always referred to them as windows.
if they were dialog boxes i couldn't even close the browser window.

I think it is useless to have the extension window or the javascript console
open after you close the last browser window. There is no option to open a
browser window "cleanly" from these windows anyway. In most cases you destroy
the last session you saved with yout session saver if you have one. (e.g.
clicking an error in the javascript console brings up a new browser window but
the last session, that was in the browser window before, is lost)

If i open my FF i want to browse the web. Sometimes i alter the options of an
extension, sometimes i organize my bookmarks, then i surf some more, but when i
am done with surfing the web i close the FF window and i don't want to have to
close these "secondary" windows too.

I think it would be a nice feature.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I never said that these are dialog boxes, i always referred to them as windows.
> if they were dialog boxes i couldn't even close the browser window.

Then it would be a modal dialog box. These are modeless dialog boxes.
 
> I think it is useless to have the extension window or the javascript console
> open after you close the last browser window. There is no option to open a
> browser window "cleanly" from these windows anyway. In most cases you destroy

On Windows or Linux maybe. But I'm using a Mac, wherr you have a menubar without
windows :-) Not that acces to a common menu structure (File & Edit menus in
every window for example) will be more generalized in the future : see
<http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Menus>.

> the last session you saved with yout session saver if you have one. (e.g.
> clicking an error in the javascript console brings up a new browser window but
> the last session, that was in the browser window before, is lost)

I'm still looking for a bug where this is better explained, but the issue is
that you can have a download manager open (and still downloading) while all the
other windows are already closed.

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Managers are treated as windows, on par with browser windows. When all windows
are closed, the application is closed.

I'm marking this WONTFIX. If you feel strongly that there needs to be a way in
w32 to "close everything and quit", then re-open as an enhancement request
asking for that feature (although I'm not sure that's what you were really
looking for)

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

If you want to exit, use the menuitem.  Alt-F,x works just fine.  We're not
going to implement this even as an option, an extension could do it though.