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List:       mozilla-general
Subject:    Re: Mozilla holds up other apps?
From:       gerbil <gerbil () ucdavis ! edu>
Date:       2000-05-25 17:20:41
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sometimes, but I can consistently reproduce Mozilla actually
preventing a program from launching because of this bug:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38457

	But unfortunately I'm the only one I know who can reproduce
this bug consistently :(

	<:3)~~

"Scott I. Remick" wrote:
> 
> Has anyone else noticed having Mozilla running holds up processes in
> other apps?
> 
> This isn't 100%, but every now and then I'll try and do something in
> another program and it will just hang.  At first I thought it was the
> individual app locking up... but then I noticed that if I closed Mozilla,
> the app would un-hang and I could proceed as normal.
> 
> Some examples:
> 
> - Send a URL to someone in ICQ.
> - Click on a URL in an email in Eudora.
> 
> And like I said, it doesn't do it EVERY time... just sometimes.  So far,
> I think they are all URL related, even though they aren't trying to
> communicate with Mozilla (I have Communicator 4.73 as my default browser
> and often leave it running side-by-side with Mozilla for those sites that
> don't work in Mozilla).  If you send a URL to someone in ICQ, it attempts
> to fetch it from the open/active Communicator window (if it's running).
> This used to work fine in early builds, having Communicator and Mozilla
> running side-by-side.  If the URL I wanted was actually in Mozilla, I'd
> just clear it from the ICQ window and copy-paste from Mozilla.  And
> double-clicking the URL in Eudora would just pull it up into the active
> Communicator window, also just ignoring Mozilla (fine for now).
> 
> But now sometimes these apps completely hang.  Is this a known problem?
> 
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