450214 - download manager should close by closing Firefox when there is no active download

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Olé]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080811053724 Minefield/3.1a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/20080811053724 Minefield/3.1a2pre

there is no need to leave the download manager open by closing Firefox, when there is no active download. for the everyday user that's just another 	unessential click.

download manager should close by closing Firefox when there is no active download

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start Firefox
2. download something
3. wait until the download is completed
4. close firefox


Actual Results:  
the browser window closes, the download manager belongs open

Expected Results:  
all instances of Firefox should close

Comment 1

[Vojtěch Drábek]

A big problem is that if you close the download manager that is left open after closing Firefox, the state of my tabs is lost and next time, Firefox starts with its homepage only.

Comment 2

[Kroenert]

I think the problem with the missing "save open tabs"-window while the downloadmanager is open is another bug.

But maybe someone can fix both  :)

Comment 3

[Johnathan Nightingale [:johnath]]

Don't know if this is quite the approach we want to take or not - but we should figure out an answer to the more basic question - is a Firefox session with just an (inactive) download manager something we want? It causes us to behave vaguely like we're zombied and probably surprises users.  Moving to confirmed state, anyhow.