A fix for a Firefox/Download Status Bar quit bug

Nov 11, '04 09:27:00AM

Contributed by: robg

In case you missed the news, Firefox 1.0 was released the other day. In general, it's a great upgrade over the Preview Release, as they've fixed a number of bugs and added some nice new features. But it does seem to have an annoying glitch, at least on the two machines I use it on -- you apparently can't quit the app, at least not if you've had multiple tabs open. Command-Q does nothing (or it may warn you that you have multiple tabs open, then do nothing!), nor does choosing File -> Quit.

But before you resort to force quit or the Terminal, here's the simple way out: manually close every tab and the main browser window. Quit will now work as expected.

Update: As noted in the comments, this isn't an issue with Firefox, but rather with the (amazingly useful!) Download Status Bar extension. The solution above works, or you can simply disable the Download Status Bar extension, and quit functions as it should. Since I find it so valuable, though, I'll live with manually closing the windows for now.

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