#UNRESPONSIVE SCRIPT FIREFOX YAHOO WINDOWS#

Even though we continue to see the dialog and keep getting user complains. We have done the changes already to accommodate FF. >How much computation are you doing between setTimeouts? If it's still a lot, How much computation are you doing between setTimeouts? If it's still a lot, any way to use a smaller quantum? > Correct me if I知 wrong on the dependency of CPU intensive task and firefox as That is, you could have 256K backward branches that run in 60sec, depending on what goes on between the branches. We used to monitor backward branches and returns in the bytecoded JS VM, but that was fixed using wall-clock time, because counting backward branches does not really count time at all, and the UI is locked up the whole while.

> can avoid FF script timeout dependency on other tasks in the system. timeout based on number of statements executed and that way we > If time based script timeout is hard to fix then can we move FF script timeout Sounds like the OS is starving Firefox, but let's say that happens and we have to work around it.

#UNRESPONSIVE SCRIPT FIREFOX YAHOO WINDOWS#

> times when CPU intensive tasks like virus scan, backup is running on windows > done optimizations using setTimeout to avoid it and even though we see it at > the 'unresponsive script dialog' too often if they are browsing around. > running some CPU intensive task at the same time as Firefox then they will see > The problem with the time based script timeout is that if users' computer is Some of the bugs already filed on it are: Something like that in FF by default (I mean something reasonably high)? The Wouldn't it be a good idea to set dom.max_script_run_time to 60 sec or IE timesout after executing 5,000,000 statements on current page. Even though user can change it in about:config but it is too hard to tell millions of users to do so. It seems to be too low compare to what IE offers. The value of dom.max_script_run_time in FF 1.5.0.2 is 5 second.

We have been seeing 'Warning: Unresponsive Script' dialog box a lot in yahoo mail beta and it happens a lot when some cpu intensive application is running on users box and they tries to check mail.

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