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 the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, 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.