Brave should have a setting that causes it to quit automatically when it is not the frontmost application AND it has no open windows.

[mclow]

Description

Brave should have a setting that causes it to quit when it is put into the background with no windows open.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Launch Brave
2. Open a windows
3. Close the window.
4. Switch to another application.

Actual result:

Nothing happens. Brave is still running.

Desired result:

Brave should quit; because there are no windows open. (Not everyone will want this behavior, so it needs to be controlled by a setting).

I have Brave set up to clear all browsing data on exit, and so I'd like it to quit for me when there's nothing to do.

Reproduces how often:

Always.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave Software Inc

Copyright © 2022 The Brave Authors. All rights reserved.

Brave	1.36.109 Chromium: 99.0.4844.51 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Revision	d537ec02474b5afe23684e7963d538896c63ac77-refs/branch-heads/4844@{#875}
OS	macOS Version 10.15.7 (Build 19H1715)
JavaScript	V8 9.9.115.8
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.51 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-domain-reliability --enable-dom-distiller --no-pings --component-updater=url-source=https://go-updater.brave.com/extensions --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --variations-insecure-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path	/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser
Profile Path	/Users/marshall/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
Linker	lld
Variations	AdRewardsStudy:NextPaymentDayAdServingStudy:MaximumAdNotificationsPerDay=100/MaximumInlineContentAdsPerHour=8/MaximumInlineContentAdsPerDay=40AdvertiserSplitTestStudy:GroupBBraveAds.FrequencyCappingStudy:ExcludeAdIfWithinTimeWindow=0hBraveAds.UserActivityStudy:Triggers=EMPTY/Threshold=0.0/IdleTimeThreshold=5BraveDebounceStudy:EnabledConversionsStudy:NewDefaultPatternDefault1pBlockingStudy:DisabledEphemeralStorageStudy:EnabledExtendedVariationsSafeMode4:Default4ForceDisableBlinkFeatures:EnabledMacCoreLocationBackendStudy:EnabledNativeCosmeticFilteringStudy:EnabledNavigationThreadingOptimizationsCompat:DisabledPartitionBlinkMemoryCacheStudy:EnabledPartitionConnectionsByNetworkIsolationKeyStudy:EnabledPermissionLifetimeReleaseStudy:EnabledRequestAdsEnabledApiStudy:EnabledSpeedreaderReleaseStudy:Enabled

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes.
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? I haven't tried.

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

[sangwoo108]

With all due respect, as this is a general behavior of all applications on macOS, I’m on the fence. Usually not following OS-wide policy or behavior could make user confused, but if we provide an opt-in for this, it could be okay.

[mclow]

"Quitting when you are put into the background with no documents/windows open" is a general behavior for many applications (TextEdit, Preview, Calendars, etc) on Mac OS, but not for the browsers that I tried (Safari, Chrome, Brave). I wish that it was.

I can emulate this feature with AppleScript (if Brave is not the frontmost app, and the window list is empty, quit), but running that every N seconds seems like a hack.