Closed Bug 303385 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

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

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: hewitt, Unassigned)

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Details

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
The bookmark window, extension window, etc ... are not dialog boxes, but separate windows on the same level as your browse window.
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.
(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.
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)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
See Also: → 325112
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