Re: Problems with Seamonkey 2.35a2

Hi Dave

Dave Yeo wrote:
> Peter Brown wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have been using this build for a couple of weeks and have noticed
>> several problems:
>>
>> 1] Sometimes Seamonkey does not close/exit properly - Seamonkey is not
>> onscreen, not on the Windows list but when trying to start it a message
>> appears onscreen that Seamonkey is already running but not responding.
>> Sure enough, there it is in the Process list. Checking the Process list
>> shortly after closing/exiting Seamonkey does sometimes show Seamonkey
>> still running. I have tried to spot a possible reason and suspect Flash
>> as every time Seamonkey does not close/exit properly Flash has been in
>> use.
>
> I've only seen similar a couple of times without Flash.


Would you have played any videos during your browsing session? Reason 
for asking:-

Seems that the Seamonkey crashing at exit and staying on the Process 
list is not the fault of the Flash plugin.

Having deleted the flash DLL files from the Plugins directory I started 
Seamonkey.

I visited youtube to try out video playback without Flash.

I have to say it was most disappointing; the youtube html5 player used 
to work fine (mainly) with earlier builds - pre 2.35 - even with Flash 
installed but the best playback achieved was about a minute then the 
video froze while sound continued playing; video url 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Yp7lvzv4M

I closed that video and tried some others; none played. Suspecting a 
problem that could be resolved by restarting Seamonkey I closed the 
browser and started typing this report.

Several minutes later prior to restarting Seamonkey I checked the 
Process list: seamonkey.exe is visible. I killed the process.

I restarted Seamonkey and retried the above video url with the same 
result: video playback freezes after around a minute, audio continues, 
closing that video and trying others results in no playback at all, 
seamonkey.exe still showing in Process list several minutes later.

Looks like the crash on closing could be related to video playback using 
the current media playback package.


Regards

Pete