276189 - "A script on this page is causing mozilla to run slowly." with many form elements

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Baskett]

I get this alert:

"A script on this page is causing mozilla to run slowly. If it continues to run,
your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script?"

When I have a page with over 300 input fields, all of them have a size of 3 and
when I run the page on IE for PC it comes up fast, but in Mac Firefox 1.0 it's
really slow to the point that it pops up the above alert.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Can you provide a link to the page where this is happening? Or attach it to this
bug? Normally that message appears when you get stuck in infinite loops.

Comment 2

[Richard Baskett]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you provide a link to the page where this is happening? Or attach it to this
> bug? Normally that message appears when you get stuck in infinite loops.

http://www.baskettcase.com/landgraphics/

I will email you the user/pass.

Once logged in, go to "Weekly Timesheets", make sure "Adan Avelar" is selected
and click on Edit. The page that pops up is the one that gives me the timeout
message.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I've tested the page and I've not seen the message. Which build are you using?
What are the specs of the machine you're using?

Comment 4

[Richard Baskett]

I am using:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041130
Firefox/1.0

And my computer is an iMac G5 1.8 GHz, 1 GB DR SDRAM, 250 GB hard drive with 175
GB's free...  I think I have plenty of power for it :)

Comment 5

[Richard Baskett]

What is the status on this?

Comment 6

[Albert Feller]

reporter: can you give us a testcase?
http://www.baskettcase.com/landgraphics/ is not working

Comment 7

[Richard Baskett]

Im sorry but the site has gone live and there is live data in there now so I
can't give out the user/pass anymore.  We'll just have to live with it, and
since they are on PC's and they do not seem to get that notice, it's good. 
Hopefully there are only test cases out there that has this problem that you can
work with.

Comment 8

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Im sorry but the site has gone live and there is live data in there now so I
> can't give out the user/pass anymore.

Would it be possible for you to save the page, remove any sensitive data, and
post it as a testcase here using the attachment feature?

Also, have you seen whether this can be reproduced using a recent nightly build?
Testing both the Suite and Firefox would help pinpoint the cause of this.

Comment 9

[Richard Baskett]

Attachment: html file.. hangs firefox if you keep telling it to run

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 11

[Jo Hermans]

Works for me in Firefox 1.5 beta 1, on a slow (300 MHz) iBook
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050928
Firefox/1.4

Reporter, please reopen if you don't agree (sorry, we're overwhelmed with work here)