397394 - unresponsive script should identify culpable tab

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

When the unresponsive script dialog appears, it would be great if it identified the problem tab so that users could take meaningful action on that tab (closing the tab, navigating away, etc.)

Comment 1

[era+mozilla]

This seems to me like a subset of #78089

Comment 2

[Micah Gersten]

This definitely looks like a duplicate of bug 78089

Comment 3

[Micah Gersten]

Actually, bug 78089 seems to have gone off on a tangent.  This seems to be wfm on Firefox 3.0 and above.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Micah Gersten from comment #3)
> Actually, bug 78089 seems to have gone off on a tangent.  This seems to be
> wfm on Firefox 3.0 and above.

you mean 78089 is wfm not this bug, right?  yes, the dialog wording has since changed, but it's only partly fixed because the tab is still not identified (this bug), as timeless suggests in bug 78089 comment 0. 

identify the offending URL is surely a pain with lots of tabs, say 200+.

Comment 5

[Aleksey Tsalolikhin]

Could you please identify the offending page?

We run Firefox 12.0 on CentOS 5.8 (64-bit).   8 tabs are open in Firefox in our NOC display (a large wall-mounted TV) and we're using "Tab Slideshow" plugin to cycle between them.  

I just came in to find an "Unresponsive script" warning and the error text says that a script "in this page" became unresponsive.  Meantime Tab Slideshow keeps cycling between tabs so I have no idea which page faulted.   The error message does not give enough information.

Could you please display either the tab number or the URL?

Thanks for a great product!

Aleksey