Noscript causing tabs to hang in Firefox

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Is there any way to either have a debug log or any kind of internal status view of NoScript?

There is about:debugging > This Firefox > NoScript > Inspect, Console. It may give more information if NoScript Options > Advanced, "Debug" is checked.