I have two situations I've been experiencing for at least the last 8-10 releases of Firefox and accompanying Firebug 2.x updates. They don't happen a
lot and neither is earth-shatteringly important - just annoying. Neither situation is reproducible at will, but neither do they happen
unless I've opened Firebug at least once during my Firefox session. Neither situation happened before Firefox 33(ish). Just curious if *anybody* has run across similar situations and either has a solution or a "you're not alone" response.
I'm using FF 41.0.1/FB 2.0.12 and Windows 7 on a VM. I run multiple profiles at any given time because I need totally separate login sessions into our application (application critiques are not being solicited - it is what it is and it's not changing). We use prototype.js quite heavily in all of our javascript, but no other 3rd party javascript frameworks. It doesn't matter which profile I'm running, and yes, I've nuked and
recreated all profiles multiple times. Other than the names the profiles are all identical:
Addons: Firebug, MeasureIt, Show Profile (to
customize the window title), and The Addon Bar (restored)
Appearance: Default - no themes added
Plugins: OpenH264 Video Codec, Adobe Acrobat, Java Platform SE 8 U31 (yes, it's old, but only rarely used), Microsoft Office 2010. All other plugins disabled all the time.
Yes, I've
tried disabling all addons (neither situation happens) and all but
Firebug (both still happen). I've also tried using Firebug 3.0 to see if it
happens there, but it's *just* different enough in the UI that the
annoyances outweigh any potential benefits.
Situation #1) After working with firebug using Console, HTML, or Script tabs on a single page, I try to navigate to a new page of our application. The navigation stalls and eventually FF will put up a dialog along the following lines:
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue.
Script: resource://firebugui/commandEditor.html:2685
[continue/debug/stop buttons]
The actual firebug resource will vary, but the only recourse is to click "stop" and try the navigation again. Sometimes it works, sometimes situation #2 arises. If it *does* work, it's very likely that any other tabs currently open to the same application are hung/stalled and no event processing is happening on these tabs at all. Refreshing the page via the reload icon in the "awesome bar" (egads, but i hate that name) or Ctrl-F5 usually will work, but if not, continue to situation #2.
Situation #2) Firefox is thoroughly hosed. Closing the application is not enough - there's some process that refuses to quit when FF shuts down and I have to resort to task manager to kill off the process. Never happens unless preceded by #1.
thx in advance
jeff