829077 - The undocked Developer Tools window remains open after closing Firefox

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(DevTools :: Framework, defect, P2)

Description

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130110 Firefox/21.0
Build ID: 20130110030939

Steps to reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox and open one tab
2. Open the toolbox and undock
3. Close Firefox by clicking on the 'X' button.

Expected results:
The undocked developer tools window is closed along with the browser.

Actual results:
The developer tools window remains open after closing Firefox from the 'X' button. If Firefox is dismissed from the File menu -> Exit, the developer tools window is also closed.

Comment 1

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Doesn't the same thing happen with other windows, like the Error Console?

Comment 2

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

Attachment: v1

Comment 3

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

Apparently, this doesn't work if the last tab is closed with ctrl-w. Followup: bug 829553.

Comment 4

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/e608febcff45

Comment 5

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e608febcff45

Comment 6

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

Will this fix make it on the Aurora branch?

Comment 8

[[:Aleksej]]

Reproduced with firefox-20.0b7.es-ES.linux64.

WFM with 21.0 Beta and 2013-04-30-03-09-41-mozilla-central-firefox-23.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64