On Oct 20, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Jan Jongboom <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Monday, October 20, 2014 10:29:18 AM UTC+2, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> Use setTimeout if you want the timer to fire only as long as the app is 
>> still running. For example to implement some in-game action that's supposed 
>> to happen at a certain time.
>> 
>> Use the mozAlarm API if you need the timer to fire even if the app is not 
>> currently running. For example to display a notification to the user that 
>> it's time to pick up your kids from school, or to synchronize emails.
>> 
>> Never ever use a wake lock and setTimeout to accomplish the latter use case. 
>> Wake locks use a lot of battery.
>> 
>> / Jonas
>> 
>> On Oct 15, 2014 1:58 AM, "Jan Jongboom" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If I add a setTimeout() call in system, but I don't have a CPU wake lock, 
>> can I assume that this function will be called?
>> 
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> Note that there might be a problem with this: 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1079842

Can this bug at least be marked visible to moco employees? I can't see what the 
problem might be with Jonas's suggestion.

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