544648 - firefox should prevent Windows from going to sleep when downloading

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 383060

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Francesco Montorsi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; it; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; it; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

Firefox should call the Windows API SetThreadExecutionState() (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373208%28VS.85%29.aspx) to tell Windows to prevent the PC from going to sleep when downloading files.

Currently if I leave my PC downloading a large file, Windows will put it to sleep interrupting in this way the downloading. This is very annoying.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to "Power options" in Windows' Control Panel and set the computer so that it goes to sleep after 5-10min of inactivity
2. open Firefox and start to download a large file
3. wait 5-10min and you'll see that the PC goes to sleep
Actual Results:  
The PC goes in sleep mode halting any download.

Expected Results:  
Prevent the PC from going to sleep mode until the download is terminated.