277930 - Java script loop triggers the "run slowly" alert every few seconds

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 230909

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Frank Mau]

Annoying popup with message
"A script on this page is causing Mozilla to run slowly if it continues to run
your computer may computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the
script?"
comes up every few seconds to remind me that is running slow script. I think one
reminder is enough, make this accessible as user-setting otherwise Firefox
becomes unusable for larger scripts!

Example: attached as zip -> open datatransfer.FileExport.htm

Version:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

May be similar to issue 260392

Comment 1

[Frank Mau]

Attachment: Extract zip file with path option, load file datatransfer.FileExport.htm

1. extract zip file with path option
2. load file datatransfer.FileExport.htm
3. wait a while (until page is loaded completly)
4. select 'none' inside listbox selection -> all checkboxes beside the tree
will be deselected
5. select 'Test1' inside listbox selection -> all files beside the listbox
should be selected, but the 'script runs slow' occures every few second and
blocks script-execution

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

It crashes/immobilises IE so obviously something doesn't work right.
However, this is bugzilla, not a html forum.
I suggest you try to get some help on forums.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

I sometimes run a script that takes up to a minute, and I agree that it's
annoying to have to keep dismissing that dialog to allow the script to make
progress.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 230909 added a checkbox for disabling the dialog.  There's also a bug
somewhere about making JavaScript threaded better (like in some older versions
of Opera) so that this dialog isn't necessary.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230909 ***

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change