Is it possible to turn off Firefox errors?
Is there a way to disable the "a website is making your browser run slow" message, and any other messages that Firefox finds "worthy" to pop up?
"But why do you want to disable this?" It keeps popping up and actually causing my browser to slow down. None of the sites I'm on are even doing anything (no AJAX, no refreshing, etc. Static content). This happens on a BLANK page/no URL. If I close it, it just slides back down.
Is there any way to turn these messages off permanently? It's becoming a terrible user experience with Firefox popping up all sorts of things randomly. And whoever thought it was a smart idea to remove functional menus and require silly URL's to access configuration parameters really missed the mark on that.
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@ annoyedff :
So much for appreciation and gratitude ......
Your question was :
" Is it possible to turn off Firefox errors? "
The answer is :
NO.
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There are dom.max*run_time prefs to set the maximum time, but like I posted above, if you would increase the time before you get this error message or even completely disable it this will freeze Firefox and you may have to wait a long time before Firefox will become responsive. That is why we don't recommend such modifications and try to offer workarounds or solutions like updating to prevent this issue in the first place.
cor-el said
There are dom.max*run_time prefs to set the maximum time, but like I posted above, if you would increase the time before you get this error message or even completely disable it this will freeze Firefox and you may have to wait a long time before Firefox will become responsive. That is why we don't recommend such modifications and try to offer workarounds or solutions like updating to prevent this issue in the first place.
That's what I'm trying to explain here, though - my browser isn't actually experiencing any slow scripts. Every tab and site opened is functioning 100% normal (static pages, no AJAX or ad ridden junk sites). It's just an irritation. Problem is solved, though - I moved onto a different browser. FF isn't becoming unresponsive, but the warning pane doesn't go away until I restart FF - that's unacceptable. I'm not sure how FF would become unresponsive for longer when it isn't becoming unresponsive in the first place.
I mean, you all realize I'm not talking about a popup message, right? I'm talking about the little tooltip banner that slides down from under the nav bar. Can't X it out as it just comes back. It's really frustrating to have to reopen a handful of tabs to get rid of that 1 message. The pages loaded are all static pages on the local machine (can't go into it further due to NDA's).
Regardless, though, there should be an option to either hide the warnings, or take action without user intervention.
Anyway, no point in furthering the discussion. Clearly you can't see where I'm coming from, and I think it's ridiculous to not be able to disable warning/error messages when nearly every software out there allows the user to determine how to handle the errors (hide them/never show them, alert based on severity, etc.)
I miss the days when software devs didn't find it necessary to nanny their users.