> "Brian Kochera" <brian1
...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>
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>> When trying to load my home page I get the following error message:
>> My Home Page URL: http://preview.my.earthlink.net"
>> Error Message: "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have
>> stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue
>> to see if the script will complete."
>> Script: Chrome://xcm/content/xcm/overlay.js 196
>> Could someone explain this to me? Is it a FF 3.0 bug? I am not that
>> familiar with chrome or scripts. Is there a fix or work around?
> Hi Brian,
> Choosing a complicated home page is probably not a good idea, but it
> is a lot better than choosing a default Google page that some choose
> despite the built-in search box. It's obviously good at telling you
> that you
> have a problem.
> Have you checked the following, you are not likely to find that message
> but you may find some of your extensions have or have had problems in
> the past.
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
> If you have AVG Anti-virus you probably also have "AVG Safe Search" so
> check your add-ons even if you aren't aware of installing it.
> I would disable all themes before investigating to make sure you still
> have
> problem and leave the off until solved.
> The best thing to test first is if you have a problem with your site
> with a new
> profile that has none of the changes that you make (get rid of "ABV Safe
> Search"
> if you have it, shows up even in a new profile).
> Check the box at the top of my web page with the red dashes around it,
> some
> have been fixed since but I had to disable or remove over 20
> extensions that
> interfered with 2.0.0.14 or Fx3. It only takes one. Here is a
> list of some that
> I still have disabled meaning may still have problems or weren't worth
> effort
> to investigate.
> /Find Bar/,
> Unresponsive Script, and whiteouts. Some I've disabled in 2.0.0.14 (*
> disabled on 2008-02-08): /Find Bar/, * [Autocomplete Manager], *
> EditCSS, * Extended Cookie Manager, * InspectThis, [PermaTabs],
> Professor X, RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin, * [searchcache], *
> SnagIt Firefox Extension (application works fine don't need/use the
> extension) addition notes scattered through my home page.
> Script Busy (#scriptbusy)
> Something to test after adding/enabling an Extension: Ctrl+A (select
> all) followed by right-click to bring up context menu. Big problem if
> instead of context menu you get "A script on this page may be busy, or
> it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can
> continue to see if the script will complete [Stop Script] [Continue]".
> These extensions are a problem: and have been disabled/uninstalled:
> Line Marker (200607), Quick Sum (0.1), Translate (0.6.0.9), gTranslate
> (0.3.1). Also as you approach Firefox 2.0.0.12 some extensions that get
> (not responding) and similar errors.
> You can up the timeouts but it isn't likely to help, these
> numbers below are exceptionally high.
> dom.max_chrome_script_run_time integer 180
> dom.max_script_run_time integer 180
> Then if the simpler means fail, there's the disabling of half of the
> active extensions until the problem is solved then re-enable half of
> the disabled extensions at a time, rather than all at once. (binary
> testing)
> I hate this even though the time is often quicker than trying to guess
> which ones are bad -- hate it because I always have some extensions
> disabled and if I turn a bad one back on, I've got another problem.
I don't use AVG Safe. I use Zone Alarm Security Suite; it automatically
updates virus and spyware signatures. I found that creating a new
profile for FF 3.0 is the fix. I was able to migrate some things from
my 2.x profile like bookmarks. Password and form history came over by
themselves. They were not problematical. As a result of creating a new
profile with new add-ons I don't get that error message any more.
Thank you.