I’ve been receiving the following error from Firefox more and more often over the past month:
As pictured, it usually happens when uploading photos to flickr, but it has happened with other sites. I’ll be uploading, eventually this error comes up, I click on the “Stop Script” button, the error disappears, and everything continues as if nothing happened. Supposedly, this is a “helpful” message that results from pages that take “too long” to load.
After some poking around, I found the following solution on lifehacker.
Type about:config in Firefox’s address bar.
Filter down to the value for dom.max_script_run_time.
Change the value to something higher than the default (which is 5.) I set mine to 20.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Unresponsive Script?”
I was getting those for a while, mainly at webshots, then I turned off my Javascript. That worked for a short while, but it was annoying to turn it back on when I needed it and off again. It seemed to cure itself after a while. Haven’t had this pop up in a few months.
I was getting those for a while, mainly at webshots, then I turned off my Javascript. That worked for a short while, but it was annoying to turn it back on when I needed it and off again. It seemed to cure itself after a while. Haven’t had this pop up in a few months.