Firefox extended info process doesn't always work

[AlexFarran]

I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, so I had to add a Firefox-2-bin symlink in the extensions directory before installing the uploader.

Half of my time is reported as firefox-2-bin. I've checked that currentURL is being updated correctly by monitoring it with dnotify. This is what the the uploader reports when there is no extended info:

Getting extended info from /home/alex/.python-eggs/RescueTimeUploader-80.2-py2.5.egg-tmp/RescueTimeUploader/extensions/Firefox-2-bin/extended_info
send-to: Firefox-2-bin
Custom Query - Fulbright - Trac - Mozilla Firefox

Firefox-2-bin (Custom Query - Fulbright - Trac - Mozilla Firefox) now focused (Extended info: None)

It looks like the extended_info process exits early, or never starts.

[AlexFarran (alex-alexfarran)]

I've learnt some python and added some debugging code. When the main process tries to read from the subprocess it often gets a broken pipe error. I think this is because the subprocess has finished before the main process tries to read from it. As a quick fix I've added a 1 second delay to the start of extended_info and that seems to have worked.

[Elliot Murphy (statik)]

Can you show me exactly where you added the delay?

[AlexFarran (alex-alexfarran)]

Right at the start. Here's the file.