329228 - short-circuit code to shut down app when no more windows exist

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Very often it is the case that sm stays resident in memory even after I've closed the last window, and I have to manually kill it (using WinXP, but I can't see why this shouldn't happen on Linux either). Isn't there some short-circuit watchdog code somewhere which shuts down the app if no more windows are open/about to be opened?

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes, such code does exist.  If you start SeaMonkey and immeadiately close the window, does SeaMonkey exit?

Comment 2

[Eyal Rozenberg]

It does. This only happens after prolonged use, with a lot of opening&closing tabs  and windows.

Comment 3

[Tom Baxter]

We have experienced same problem. Our Computer is running XP Professional. Only way we have found to clear the problem is to use End Process facility on seamonkey.exe file with Windows Task Manager. We are using Sea Monkey ver. 2.0.3. The problem also exhibits itself in Firefox ver. 3.6.

Comment 4

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Maybe this should be moved to the core product?

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

If you have the SysInternals Process Explorer or in Windows 7 the Resource Monitor you look at the wait chains to see if the SeaMonkey process is waiting for something before exiting.

Comment 6

[Philip Chee]

No replay to Comment 5 in one year. Closing as INCOMPLETE. If you have new information via SysInternals Process Explorer you can always reopen this bug.