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Firefox: script not responding?

action.manager says:
Since a couple of days, RTM has become almost useless on my PC. Whenever I try to select a different (smart) list in my browser (Firefox 3.5.6), the browser initially locks up and after quite some time it will pop up a dialog informing me that this script is not responding:

https://www.rememberthemilk.com/js/compiled/rtm.3.25.js:2190

This happens on several computers, but only with Firefox. Not with Google Chrome (which I tried because it is praised for its JavaScript engine).

Anyone else who suffers from this? How did you solve it?

(the RTM team did not respond to my report yet)
Posted at 8:20pm on December 26, 2009
action.manager says:
Update: this even happens with Firefox (3.5.6) Portable with the default (empty) profile (i.e., without any extension installed...)
Posted 14 years ago
action.manager says:
Update 2: speed is much better with Firefox Portable 3.6 Beta 5!

So this might be a Firefox 3.5.6 issue...
Posted 14 years ago
action.manager says:
Tried the beta of Firefox 3.5.7 (to be released soon).

Problem still present...
Posted 14 years ago
aschroiff says:
Hi there,

I have the same problem on different computers, also using firefox 3.5.6. It appeared out of nowhere, I did not install any new extensions or changed anything on firefox.

RTM works fine in IE on the same machine.

Thanks for any help how to solve this issue!

Anna
Posted 14 years ago
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
Can you try to open Firefox in safe mode to see if that affects the situation?
Posted 14 years ago
action.manager says:
RTM is much faster with Firefox in safe mode and I could not reproduce the problem thus far!

(I wonder why it isn't this fast with 3.5.6 portable and an empty profile)
Posted 14 years ago
action.manager says:
Same results with Firefox 3.5.7 which has just been released:

Slow and script errors, unless in safe mode...
Posted 14 years ago
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
If possible, could you perhaps disable the JIT Javascript engine? There's a really short list of what carries across profiles but isn't in safe mode, and since this is script-related, I'd think that'd be the problem.

Details and instructions about it are available on Mozilla's wiki. Summary: in about:config, set javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to "false".

If you'd rather not try that, I'd be curious if you could list what extensions, plugins, and themes you have available in Tools | Add-ons?

Let me know how that goes!
Posted 14 years ago
action.manager says:
Yes, disabling GreaseMonkey prevents this script error.

But may be it is GreaseMonkey that is complaining in the first place?

(strange enough disabling it speeds up RTM; should be the other way around?)
Posted 14 years ago
action.manager says:
Sorry, I meant TraceMonkey (FF's JavaScript engine), not a particular add-on...

Time to enter the high priority repeating task "Drink coffee" in RTM ;)
Posted 14 years ago
action.manager says:
Installed Firefox 3.6 RC1 at work today (with both javascript.options.jit.* options enabled) and RTM is up to speed again (without script errors so far)! :)

I will "try this at home" later tonight... ;)
Posted 14 years ago
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
Glad to hear; it could certainly be a Firefox bug that was addressed in 3.6. Keep us posted.
Posted 14 years ago
bfootnovellista says:
I did a bit of troubleshooting after getting this error, also - check and see if you have the A Bit Better RTM greasemonkey script (or firefox add-on, for that matter) installed.

Removing it from my system removes the error completely. None of my other greasemonkey scripts produce the error, and neither do my other add-ons, so I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the ABBRTM script. You'll probably want to contact the dev of that script and give him the error line.
Posted 14 years ago
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