Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI
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1 edit | [FireFox] ForecastFox prevents computer from sleeping
Well this started off as what I thought was a Microsoft problem (»[XPPro] Computer won't sleep if set for 30+ minutes.) but the culprit is ForecastFox for Firefox. What could this extension possibly be doing to prevent my computer from sleeping, and how can I get it fixed? |
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DataDoc
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Greenville, NC | Have you tried asking the developer?
»groups.google.com/group/forecastfox-users
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La Luna
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said by Ark  :...What could this extension possibly be doing to prevent my computer from sleeping.... Calling out to check the weather? |
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Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI
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| said by La Luna :said by Ark :...What could this extension possibly be doing to prevent my computer from sleeping.... Calling out to check the weather? And why would a little network activity prevent the computer from going to sleep when there has been no user input for the specified period of time (30 minutes).
After all, if I disable Forecastfox, ICQ is still connected to its server sending messages, Firefox is refreshing my portal webpage every 20 minutes, and Thunderbird is checking for new mail every 1 minute. Plus the FoxClocks extension is updating the clock in Firefox every 1 minute as well. With ForecastFox disabled, my computer sleeps just fine, despite all that other screen and network activity. Windows only cares about keyboard and mouse input as far as I know. |
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Kayrac
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Rochester, NH | reply to Ark
forecast fox has an option to 'popup' the current conditions every so long
it does so in the bottom right corner of the screen, disable that option and see if it fixes it...............would be my guess atleast |
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Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI | I've always had the "Alert Sliders" disabled in Forecastfox. I just want the temp and little icons in my status bar, nothing more. |
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Kayrac
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| said by Ark :I've always had the "Alert Sliders" disabled in Forecastfox. I just want the temp and little icons in my status bar, nothing more. Out of ideas then, i notice you posted on the google group, thats probably your safest bet  |
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La Luna
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said by Ark :said by La Luna :said by Ark :...What could this extension possibly be doing to prevent my computer from sleeping.... Calling out to check the weather? And why would a little network activity prevent the computer from going to sleep when there has been no user input for the specified period of time (30 minutes). I don't know, it was the first thing that came to mind. You say you've narrowed it down to ForecastFox being the culprit, calling out to get weather updates seems to be the logical explanation. I have no idea what ForecastFox does or disturbs when it calls out.
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Ark
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| said by La Luna :I don't know, it was the first thing that came to mind. You say you've narrowed it down to ForecastFox being the culprit, calling out to get weather updates seems to be the logical explanation. I have no idea what ForecastFox does or disturbs when it calls out. It seems logical, but many other apps are calling out for various network activity too, and none of them seem to stop Windows from sleeping.
This took me about 2 months of testing, 1 test per night, starting with which app was causing the computer to not sleep (Firefox) by leaving different combination of apps open and getting 5 or more of the same results from the same configurations. Then I repeated the process with more trial-and-error testing by disabling half of the Firefox extensions one night, and a different half another night. Eventually I got consistent data showing that I only have to disable Forecastfox, and the computer will sleep every single night.
I can repeat these results on my wives computer downstairs as well, so it can't be an isolated incident with my computer or some other setting. The only similarities between the computers is that they are both running XP Pro, Firefox, and ICQ. Both are set to sleep after some time period with S3 enabled in the BIOS. The hardware is years different (X2 5200+ vs XP 2200+, nForce 570 vs nForce 2, GF9800 vs GF6600 AGP, SATA vs IDE) but is AMD/nVidia in both cases. |
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