Small Firefox Tweak for the Slower Machines

I’ve largely moved all my IM stuff over to meebo for the past few weeks. I like it, it works well and it’s nicely suited to the number of machines I use. In fact, at home, I tend to have it running on my little Xubuntu laptop. (which is much more useful now that I can HEAR when I get a message).

Problem with the laptop, though, is that while logging into meebo it would throw a series of “unresponsive” errors that looked similar to this:

Typically at least 3 of ‘em. Annoying.

This afternoon, on a whim, I thought maybe I should have a peek at about:config (type it into the Firefox address bar). I did a quick search for “time” and found this key:

dom.max_script_run_time

Bingo! His default is 5. I changed it to 25, closed and reopened Firefox and no more “unresponsive” errors when logging on.

Sure, this is probably in a FAQ somewhere, but I figured it out solo.

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