Question

I open the Firefox application using a

     open -n -a Firefox.app

When I close the window of this Firefox application, only the window closes but the application still keeps running. I know that I could use Command+Q, but I want the application to quit when I click the Close button.

I have looked up for various command line options but haven’t been able to figure out a way to start the Firefox application so that when I close the last window, the application itself quits.

I know this has more to do with Mac treating Applications and Windows differently. So how do I approach this problem?

Are there any other command line arguments that I can pass to make this work?

Answer 1

You can use osascript to send a quit AppleEvent to the application using AppleScript

$ osascript -e 'tell application "Firefox" to quit'