Small Firefox Tweak for the Slower Machines
Posted on August 15, 2006
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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. 
Tags: about:config, firefox, im, javascript, meebo, tweak, xubuntu
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Do you think this tweak would help those of us who are stranded on Dial-up island at times?
If you get that “Unresponsive” dialog, it’d be worth a shot.