From: Mark Hansen <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: 27/09/10 09:22:38
Subject: Re: Windows XP Pro. SP3's screen saver and monitor sleep not startingwith SeaMonkey v2?
On 9/26/2010 11:10 PM, Ant wrote:
> On 9/26/2010 1:19 PM PT, Bill Spikowski typed:
>
>>> Is it me or does Windows XP Pro. SP3's screen saver and monitor sleep
>>> sometimes not start with SeaMonkey v2 running? Has anyone else noticed
>>> this too? >>
Not unusual at all. With both of these services...screen saver and either monitor "sleep" or system "sleep", ANY system activity in general will tick off, or more precisely, trigger ON/OFF the aforementioned items.
In days gone past, it used to be only mouse movement or a keyboard key being pressed would trigger screen saver and either monitor "sleep" or system "sleep" to disable and allow the system to come back to life.
However, in the case of browsers, there's enough code or thread background activity to sometimes NOT allow screen saver and either monitor "sleep" or system "sleep" to enable, or to come on, as we would expect them to, when the alloted time has been reached.
As far as browsers are concerned, this observed activity is and has been seen in SeaMonkey, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and others...and sometimes in other applications as well.
I will say one thing, though, when users or we updated to XP SP3, we frankly never had so many quirks, problems, or even sudden failures of systems... certainly not seen in XP SP2. It's our humble opinion that XP SP3 leaves something tangible to be desired.
Joe
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