UNresponsive Script freezing pages

[mtw5ok]

Monday Nov 12>>>

Starting 4 days ago......This unresponsive script box keeps popping up saying that a "script may be busy or stopped responding" and asks me to either "stop script, open script and debug script" to let the script continue.  I can not tell you how many times I have responded each way.  "continue"  "stop script" and "debug script" . I have Win 7 (4gig) and Firefox, but it also happens in Chrome. It happens in search, watch pages and it won't let me go between to view photos or click on other items on the page or go back with the back button. It just stops and gives me The dreaded "script pop up". I wind up closing the page down cold. And if I cannot shop how many others have this issue cannot shop? Especially if they have low RAM. BEFORE I wrote here...I already troubleshooted Firefox and updated everything, cleared my cache 10's of times, stopped hardware excelleration. I don't have adobe falsh to interfere....It is an ebay issue probably from the fall roll up? Its happening on Search Pages, watch pages as well as others. 

[berserkerplanet]

Not seeing it in Firefox 3.6.24, 31, or 52.

Running Win XP with 4Gb ram and Quadcore processor, but memory has no (or little) bearing on an "unresponsive script" issue.

I block a lot of eBay scripts (particularly anything to do with ads), so may be immune to it, but your post is the first I've seen of it so suspect it may not be a widespread issue.

If you are not already, try running Adblock Plus (or whatever adblocker) in Firefox, and see if you can narrow down what specific script(s) are causing the problem via the error dialogs or trial and error using Adblock Plus, block them, and see what (if any) collateral damage results - buttons not working, purchase or sold item tracking popups not popping up, and other functions.

I run Adblock Plus completely manually - none of their rulesets used, no ruleset subscriptions, just my own specific rules hand written or created through the wizard, and I use an old FF addon called XUL Profiler for script profiling, but it probably won't work in newer Firefoxen and zero chance of working in any Firefox Quantums.

Maybe try posting a specific URL for an eBay page where the issue reliably occurs and we can poke at and dissect it.

[mtw5ok]

Hey Berserkerplanet:

Thanks for your response... At the time of the script issue, I was using Firefox 56 and since then I

updated to Firefox 63 Quantum. The reason I thought it the Script issue was ebay was 2 fold:

1.) I hadn't updated my computer or changed any programs or added any and neither had I changed

habits of usage or ways of browsing. 2.) Ebay recenlty rolled out its fall ball of semi annual updates

and this unresponsive script issue came up virtually from 1 minute to the next and failed to go away.

What was different that hadn't been different before??  I take fairly good care of my computer and

i know about them, but scripts are something I have not learned about YET!  I sell and search Ebay

several times a day --7 days each week and I notice just about anything that is different or any techie

issue. If they don't affect usage, I roll with the flow. Unfortunately, if it freezes my CPU and virtually causes me to shut down, I just cannot use Ebay until something is fixed.  Most of the script issues had to do with viewing Larger

pictures (from the thumbnails), trying to use the back buttons to get off the page, trying to travel to another Item

shown at the bottom of a listing and finally it got bad enough my scroll button failed to function. I am going to

try to duplicate the issue within Firefox 63 Q and see if Ebay was just picky about my older browser (a pipe dream) or perhaps ebay discovered an unruly buggy script on their own ( A HUGE pipe dream) .  Either way I'll let your know .... and thanks Berserk,  🙂     Walker

[berserkerplanet]

Keep us updated.

One thing you can do to mitigate it a bit is you can fiddle with processor affinity if you have a multicore cpu - assign only 2 of 4 or 1 of 2 cores to Firefox to retain some cpu oomph for the system. Also, if a tab freezes and you lose mosue control, Ctrl-W will close the tab when FF gets enough cpu cycles to process the command, and the ESC key will stop page loads sometimes.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Selling/Unresponsive-Script/m-p/21127388