311397 - Javascript keeps nagging through lengthy calculations. User has to press »Continue script« over and over again.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 230909

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Kuyumcu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/85.8.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.8.1
Build Identifier: Firefox version 1.5 beta2

On the link given above, click on the upper leftmost button "y=x". Dismiss the alert. Then the 
javascript will calculate about 160000 pixel values. This takes several seconds to minutes. But the 
user is forced to click on "Continue script" quite often as Firefox seesm to suspect the script could 
be faulty. But it isn't. It just takes time. The main calculation that is to follow will take even more 
time, and it is impossible to constantly press »Continue script«. My suggestion: offer a checkbox 
»Don't ask again.« Even better: include a preference item: »Let scripts run uninterrupted«. Thank 
you!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the "y=x" button
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Actual Results:  
The Javascript module keeps nagging about the script being executed.

Expected Results:  
My suggestion: offer a checkbox »Don't ask again.« fo slow scripts. Even better: include a 
preference item: »Let scripts run uninterrupted«. Thank 
you!

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

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