282989 - spawn downloading of xpis on another thread

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Andrew Schultz]

The linux installer is currently single-threaded.  This works fine, but the GUI
is slow to respond while downloading and if the network is slow or times out,
the stub installer seems to actually hang (see bug 272633).  The most
straightforward solution is to make the perform the download on a different
thread and let the GUI thread repaint the window as needed and respond to user
events (cancel/pause, etc).

I have a working patch.  I'll kick the tires a bit more and attach it.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

installer is dead