On 10/19/2009 6:54 PM Bill Davidsen wrote:
Is there some reason why everyone is trying to do something else annoying when the SM1.1.xx behavior, to ask only when the MP was needed and do it only once (unless the timeout option was specified), was highly satisfactory?
The new behavior is not what we want but what we got when switching to the new backend. That backend switch was needed for a variety of reasons (one being that no-one maintained/understood the old one well enough) and had many other implications beside the above regression.
Is it because no one can remember how it was done, or because people believe that the new behavior is better somehow?
No, it is because the real solution was not ready in time (and still is not). AFAIK TB 3.0 will have the same issues (and if not the relevant changes will probably be included in the next SM 2.0.x minor release after that).
In other words, is the goal to eventually return to the 1.1.xx behavior,
Yes.
or are we stuck with various less-satisfactory alternatives?
Only for the time being (SM 2.0 at least). HTH Jens -- Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/> SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
