If Firefox is asked to close more than once in rapid succession, it will display more than one confirmation dialog
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| firefox (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
On Xubuntu 8.04.1 with all updates, if a user "double-clicks" the close button on a Firefox Window containing at least two tabs, or clicks the close button a second time from an apparent lack of responsiveness before the confirmation dialog is shown, when Firefox finally responds*, the user will be presented with a number of confirmation dialogs equal to the number of times the user clicked the close button.
Once the first confirmation dialog appears, Firefox will no longer allow any further clicks on the close button, but will not ignore multiple clicks on the close button before the first confirmation dialog.
Further, the second and any further confirmation dialogs that appear do not match the first. See the attached screenshot.
*Firefox may seem somewhat lagging or unresponsive at times on much older hardware, especially when using more tabs or websites that extensively use multimedia.
| Harrison Neal (hantwister) wrote | #1 |
| Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in firefox: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This error appears to be a feature of Firefox. If you go to Edit -> Preferences -> Tabs , there is "Warn me when closing multiple tabs". Unchecking that stops both error screens. Also, if one checks "Do not ask next time" in the 'Quit Firefox' box that comes up, you will only receive one box because you are closing multiple tabs.