Re: IE and OE freezups
Re: IE and OE freezups
- Subject: Re: IE and OE freezups
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:42:16 -0700
At 13:08 -0400 7/19/2001, richard brosnahan wrote:
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Hi all,
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When waking from sleep, Internet Exploder and Outlook Express can cause my
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Mac to freeze. This is a documented bug listed on Microsoft's site, and it's
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terribly annoying as I have to reboot. I believe it has to do with the way
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they do TCP/IP stuff. They "block" till packets are confirmed or something.
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But that's not the question.
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What I want to do is have both of these apps quit when the machine goes to
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sleep. And before anyone says there are other browsers, stop. I know there
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are and I use them. I like them better, actually. I depend on IE for my
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work.
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Anyhow, there's no "sleep items" folder in the system folder like the
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startup and shutdown folders. I can easily write a script that will quit the
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apps and put the machine to sleep. I want something that detects when the
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machine is going to sleep and triggers the "quit ie and oe" script before
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the machine nods off.
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I can offer a kludge which might work. It would take a script application
running in the background, and the
Idle Time
extension (comes with AOL Instant Messenger; available elsewhere but I
don't know where). It goes back to the moderately early days of UserLand
Frontier.
With the extension in place, your background script could idle, checking
every n minutes to see whether the idle time indicates that the machine
would sleep before the next time it runs. If so, the script would quit the
problematic applications.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA