Open Bug 563061 Opened 15 years ago Updated 3 years ago

idle events don't fire when Firefox is not in the foreground

Categories

(Core :: Widget, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Widget
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: jgriffin, Unassigned)

Details

On Windows 7, if Firefox is launched and it never appears in the foreground (because another window was brought to the front before the Firefox window appeared, for instance), idle events from nsIIdleService will never be sent to registered listeners. The event will only be generated after Firefox has been brought to the foreground. In my case, this interferes with a test extension I'm creating for Weave; the extension waits for an idle event before syncing, but in cases where Firefox is not in the foreground, the idle event never appears, so the test times out.
Severity: normal → S3
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