Public bug reported:

It would be particularly useful for Thunderbird that closing it's last
window doesn't imply quitting the application. Maybe it's something that
should be addressed at a more general level, or there's already a
solution to it I have not yet found out.

>From a user experience point of view, it doesn't make much sense that closing 
>the main window, while for example having the activity window open, keeps the 
>app running, but doing the same thing without any other window open quits the 
>application.
Closing all Thunderbird windows but not quitting would allow to declutter the 
screen and at the same time keep checking for new mail (which would show up on 
Ubuntu's messaging icon and Thunderbird launcher).

In my opinion this should actually be the behavior for all applications. See 
also:
http://design.canonical.com/2011/03/quit/

Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
Thunderbird 24.4.0
everything  up to date as of 10/04/2014

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: close quit saucy

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