Re: Problems with Seamonkey 2.35a2

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:-

I don't have the bandwidth to download and play videos. I did test with 
local videos and all that should have worked fine did. Now that I think 
of it, I tried some videos that SM couldn't handle and did get some 
hangs at exit.

>
> 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 tried this, good choice, just picked up a copy of Procol Harum 
yesterday at the thrift store.
After about half an hour it made it to the 55 second mark and froze. 
Turning scripting off and back on and it came back to life bit started 
the download again. Crappy connection, could you have problems with the 
connection?
SM closed fine.

>
> 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.
>

Might be worth testing with FF and if the issue continues, opening an 
issue though it may just be fragile.
Dave