WMS YAHOO plugin don't close firefox in ubuntu 7.10 after fetch the images

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WMS YAHOO plugin don't close firefox in ubuntu 7.10 after fetch the images. Firefox needs to be closed by hand before make a new zoom to the map.

Report from Francisco Santos by mail:
OK, it seems that something has changed in firefox since I developed the plugin (in Ubuntu 7.04 or even before that). As I haven't used it in many months, I didn't noticed it, but the problem seems to be that "/usr/bin/firefox" is now just a script that launches another script that launches the real firefox program. This chain of scripts does not permit the plugin to kill the real process.

I've been looking around a way to kill the real process from java, but didn't find any. It may need a dirty hack for each different OS to find the real firefox process ("taskman.exe" in windos, "ps" in linux, ...).

[anonymous]

Just an idea from a newbie: Since the plugin uses a custom HTML page, couldn't one insert a window.close() JavaScript call at right spot so that the window will close itself when the image loading is done (is it possible to detect that?)?

[ramack]

This is not critical: a simple workaround is to just close the window by hand.
may be someone could contact the author of the YWMS plugin...

[mjulius]

At least in my case closing of the window by hand produces an Error 500 and no image in JOSM.

Firefox (Iceweasel) 3 on Debian Lenny

[stoecker]

WMS Yahoo support no longer uses firefox.