326774 - Second Browser Insance Exits Both Instances

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171892

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[bruce]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Previous roport # 324785 is marked as invalid. I understand why however, it is valid. Here is why;
I use the "File->Exit" method much more often than the top right "X" close window button and if I don't have tabs open in any instantiated browser window, well Web, Java, and Data base programming using several instantiations of Firefox over two monitors...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Instantiate First Firfox session.
2.Instantiate a second, third...
3.Use "File->Exit" from any one of the instances.

Actual Results:  
Exits All instances.

Expected Results:  
Because I work in the God Forsaken Microsoft World, I
Expect only the window object in focus to exit.

After some thought I think that a warning with a choice to either "Exit ALL" "Exit (This)" or "Cancel" would best suffice.

Ps. For me the severity is major not normal.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You don't have more than one instance, you have a single instance with more than one window
For the priority of bug reports see :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity

This is wontfix for Seamonkey (bug 39057)

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

What you want to use is "close window" not exit. These are two different things. This is really a duplicate of the request to move close window to where exit is.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171892 ***

Comment 3

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

(In reply to comment #1)
Yes, sadly to say, a lot of people mixed up the concept of "new window" and "new instance".  Even O'Reilly authors!
http://safari.oreilly.com/0131870041/app03
(The second table about File menu, first item on New Window)

I can't imagine that O'Reilly, a prestigious computer book publisher, can let this serious error out in its book!!