Re: Problems with Seamonkey 2.35a2

Hi Dave

Peter Brown wrote:
> 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


Of course the above video played back fine on a much later attempt. The 
system was not rebooted between playback attempts so I have no idea why 
playback failed on earlier attempts but worked fine later.


Regards

Pete