Closed Bug 408396 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Cannot open new Firefox window after closing windows and leaving open only chatzilla without exiting program

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 322107

People

(Reporter: stephen, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

see summary.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox and chatzilla
2. Close firefox windows
3. Type CTRL+N or reclick Firefox icon in dashboard.
Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
A new firefox window.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Phil,

isn't the dashboard icon something Firefox itself should do? Shouldn't it detect there are no more actual browser windows? The same applies if you open the download manager or the addons window or the error console, as far as I can tell... if it doesn't, then what magic enables those windows to open a new window when the dashboard icon is clicked?

Per the above I'm not sure this is an exact dupe (though adding an easily discoverable way to open a browser window in ChatZilla would certainly help).
No, it's something that nsNativeAppSupportCocoa::ReOpen() should do, not "Firefox."

The current behavior is fully HIG-compliant, since a dock icon click should bring open unminimized windows to the front, unminimize windows if there are no open unminimized ones, or open the main app window if no windows at all are open. It's just that I've never seen a native app which has more than one sort of window actually *do* it that way - anything with a "main" window and other sorts of windows acts as though the HIG says "main window" rather than "window", like the way Mail.app will open a 3pane even if you have a compose window open and unminimized.

If you file a bug on Toolkit to give that behavior (and, note that it will require giving windows the concept of "main-ness" which they currently don't have as far as I know), I'll vote for it until my clicking finger cramps. I just don't think this bug, where Nonya Dam just wants *some* way of opening a browser window, *any* way, is that bug. And if it's not a duplicate of bug 322107, then it's absolutely a duplicate of bug 365585, since that one says exactly the same thing about the methods the reporter tried, and you'll have to decide according to your rules which of the other things marked as duplicates of bug 322107 are actually duplicates of that if you want to reopen it and morph it into "dock clicks should open a 'main' window."
OK, fair enough. I agree with the original assessment that this is a dupe, then. :-)
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