Closed Bug 39639 Opened 25 years ago Closed 21 years ago

quit at mailnews causes browser to quit as well

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

x86
All
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: doronr, Assigned: mscott)

Details

if you quit mailnews using the quit option from the file menu, it quit all open mozilla navigator (browser) windows as well. I assume this is not supposed to be. Could not find any similar bugs.
Quit in any window, such as mail, means to Quit/Exit the application; to close all application windows. If you're just interested in closing the window you're in, that would be File|Close.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
vrfy invalid, though this is really bug 39057 (which I was trying to say when I got a mid air collision)
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Laurel, Is the general user to know that Quit means to quit *all* windows that are open, including browser windows? Just because it all stems from mozilla.exe doesn't mean that the user knows this, and that quitting MailNews will also close up all the other windows he had open. I think that perhaps the menu should say something like: Quit [brandname] so that it's clear that Quit will cause all [brandname] windows to be destroyed. For example, if I'm in MailNews, and I see a menu option that says "Quit Netscape", I'm not likely to click it if I've got lots of Netscape windows open. Re-opening
Severity: major → normal
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
OS: Windows 98 → All
Resolution: INVALID → ---
this is a design issue then. should be reassigned to jglick.
Assignee: mscott → jglick
Status: REOPENED → NEW
QA Contact: lchiang → nbaca
I like the "Exit <productname>" idea. Since this a global issue across the whole product, assigning to UE architect, German.
Assignee: jglick → german
reassigning.
Assignee: german → mscott
Priority: P3 → --
QA Contact: nbaca → esther
not needed
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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