You might be better off using an extension like NoScript to disallow all javascript on all websites you visit except for the ones you trust (or at least disallow third-party javascript). Whenever I open the options page I get an unresponsive script. ' This article describes why this could happen and possible solutions and workarounds. Firefox 7 was released on September 27, 2011, and.
You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete. This update also brought the infamous feature that caused JavaScript entered in the address bar to not run. You have the choice of 'Stop Script' or 'Continue' buttons. Firefox may give you a 'Warning: Unresponsive script' prompt that says ' A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. A script on this page may be busy or may have stopped responding. The message may look like the example below. A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding.
What I am trying to say is that getting rid of these "Script not responding" errors may be worse than the errors themselves. An unresponsive script warning is a browser message that appears when JavaScript code on a web page or add-on takes too long to run. When visiting certain websites, most notably LinkedIn, Firefox often shows me a dialog box saying: Warning: Unresponsive script. For example, while buying an item on the Web, the online payment site may be slow to react, so Firefox will just cancel the script and connection with unknown results as regarding your bank account. The hang occurred running ACCE on Internet Explorer and Chrome, but Firefox returns a script error: Warning: Unresponsive script A script on this page may. These sort of mechanisms are very dangerous to use. So it has a couple of dumb guillotine-type cut-off mechanisms like dom.max_script_run_time and dom.max_chrome_script_run_time, which specify how long it is willing to wait before canceling the script and any connection it might be waiting upon at the moment. Normally it is the second case which causes "Script not responding" errors.įirefox has got no way of knowing the difference between a Web server not responding or just being slow. There is a big difference between a script going into a loop or waiting upon a server on the Web.