34229 - PC Standby mode blocks until Seamonkey exits

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Description

[selmer (gone)]

On my Win98 machine, I have a suspend mode they call standby.  It can be
initiated from buttons on the keyboard, tower, or the start menu.  If Seamonkey
is running when I attempt to initiate standby then the dialog asking me to wait
for the machine to suspend never goes away and the machine doesn't actually
suspend itself.  If I then exit Seamonkey, the dialog goes away and the machine
suspends itself.

Somehow, Seamonkey is preventing the suspend mode from taking effect.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

well, on win98, adsl connection (ie need dialup), i get the warning that standby
mode will disconnect me from the internet (all dial-up networking connections
must be closed).

If I press ok, it goes into standby with Mozilla running.

selmer - what connections are you on? LAN? ANd does netscape 4.7x let you
standby? thanks

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

[e-mail] (Asa Dotzler) taking ownership of Browser General bugs. 
 New QA Contact is [e-mail] (Joseph Elwell).  Sorry for the spam.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

[e-mail], are you still seeing this?

Comment 4

[selmer (gone)]

I was not dialed up.  I might have been using the cable modem, not sure.  The
machine would have been in the cable modem configuration though.  This would
look like a LAN configuration.  Not sure why that would matter.  I can try this
again to get more info for you, it may take me a while to do that.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

[e-mail], have you had a chance to look into this again?

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

[e-mail], this seems to work fine for me.  [e-mail] if you 
still see this pelase reopen.  

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Sorry for the spam.  New QA Contact for Browser General.  Thanks for your help
Joseph (good luck with the new job) and welcome aboard Doron Rosenberg

Comment 8

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified.

Comment 9

[Mirek]

Win98/build 2001021508. Moz. still preventing the standby. It also prevents
to turn off the HDD.
To reproduce: Allow power management, preferably notebook. Start Moz. (even w/o
connection, just blank window is enough), and wait for the timed suspend -
nothing happens.
Exit Moz., after appropriate time of no action suspend occurs.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This works for me with win2k.
Can we close this bug ?

Comment 11

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

this is a win98 bug, it worked for me before, but I know don't have win98 to
check it on.

Comment 12

[Rob Lowrie]

I also observe a similar bug under Linux using 2001080104.  If I try to enter
suspend mode, and mozilla is running, the machine doesn't go into suspend
mode for 2 or 3 minutes.  It's as though something is waiting to timeout.

Comment 13

[Simon Coffey]

I also see a problem with Standby with Win 98 SE, Mozilla (2001073003).

I only recently realised that moz was involved with the problems I was having in
getting power management to work reliably - so I searched Bugzilla and found
this bug.  I use -turbo mode so moz is actually running most of the time. 
However the machine DOES sometimes go into (timed) standby mode.  I have
experimented and I think Standby only works if Moz is in off-line mode. I
wondered if it was to do with POP3 accounts and checking for mail in the
background? I use dial-up so I disconnect when I leave the machine idle and wish
the system to go to standby, but maybe Moz is still trying to check my mail and
timing out doing so? I haven't managed to prove a connection with POP yet, though.

I can always manually request Standby mode (i.e. Start..Shutdown.. Standby) -
this works fine.  Its just the "idle time" standby that has the problem.

Comment 14

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->XPApps

Comment 15

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

-> default assignee

Comment 16

[Peter Trudelle]

->law

Comment 17

[Bill Law]

This is likely related to aspects of bug 14807 (watching for Windows 
notifications of certain system events).  I'm making it dependent on that and 
targetting for the same milestone.

Comment 18

[Peter Trudelle]

Nav triage team needs info:
Sarah, Todd doesn't see this, can you check to see if it is now wfm?

Comment 19

[Todd Pringle]

I was pretty certain that I wasn't seeing this, but I tried last night to make
sure and my machine this morning was in standby mode with the browser up. 
Marking worksforme.

Comment 20

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying WorksForMe bugs.

reopen only if this bug is still a problem with a *recent trunk build*.

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