When the router is disconnected, seamonkey hangs for 10 seconds on launch.
It will spawn a zombie process which dies in exactly 10 seconds, every time.
If the router is connected, seamonkey starts instantly, with no zombie process.

I don't think it was doing it on previous versions.

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Seamonkey has been leaving a single zombie process on my system randomly for the past few weeks. No idea why, no idea how it's doing it. I don't need to mess with the router to make it happen...it just happens, randomly, like I said. It's such a PITA that I've resorted to using PaleMoon mostly now.

Not a big deal and does not mean much. it is a terminated process. It in no way hurts the system it is just a log file.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process

I can replicate this on the same system 32 bit 14.1 even if I rename ~/.mozilla profile.
Also happens with icecat-38.4.0 and mozilla-firefox-38.5.0esr fresh compiled from source.
Note that I've just built icecat-38.4.0 with the same slackbuild on 64 bit -current and it starts instantly with no delay.
I guess it's probably something misconfigured in my local 14.1 install, unless someone else can replicate, that's why I posted here.

Found the cause after a while, seemed very strange how it never happened on -current while there was no diff in configuration.
Changing routes and gateways did not help, and I almost give up on this, which is when I found the changes in nsswitch.conf did not reflect to user programs at all.
It was falling back to dns (instead of files) every time, and since the cable was out there was no dns, hence the delay.
The cause : all user programs lacked permission to access host file, only root had access.
The solution : simple 'chmod 644' and it's now working as expected.

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