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I'm trying to see if there are some scripts out there that are causing problems with my Firefox. Is there a way to see what scripts have been blocked by NoScript? Like a log or something?

TIA,

Cash

JSView.

There is a FAQ or sticky around (I believe) that should point to it.

therube wrote:JSView.

There is a FAQ or sticky around (I believe) that should point to it.

I searched for "log" and it found no posts. Do you have a link for it?

Alan Baxter wrote:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jsview/

Thank you.

You're welcome.

I am glad you found Alan's reference to JSView useful, but if you are asking for log of scripts blocked, that would imply some kind of NS log for the scripts it has blocked, in which case the closest thing to that is the "recently blocked sites" sub-menu but not a log in the traditional sense of individual scripts. But if you are looking for a way to get a list of scripts on a page and then have a chance to view them, then the tool referenced is useful. It just seemed that the request/response and title of this post were not exactly consistent.

GµårÐïåñ wrote:I am glad you found Alan's reference to JSView useful, but if you are asking for log of scripts blocked, that would imply some kind of NS log for the scripts it has blocked, in which case the closest thing to that is the "recently blocked sites" sub-menu but not a log in the traditional sense of individual scripts. But if you are looking for a way to get a list of scripts on a page and then have a chance to view them, then the tool referenced is useful. It just seemed that the request/response and title of this post were not exactly consistent.

Anything helps... been trying to track down an issue with Firefox intermittently bogging down for a year now. Tried so many things... re-install w/no add-ons, prfile corruption, memory tamers, now looking to see if it might be common javascript on various websites I visit or one particular website. Been driving me crazy!

cashonly wrote:Anything helps... been trying to track down an issue with Firefox intermittently bogging down for a year now. Tried so many things... re-install w/no add-ons, prfile corruption, memory tamers, now looking to see if it might be common javascript on various websites I visit or one particular website. Been driving me crazy!

May I recommend, depending on your expertise and how much you want to really dig, to keep a tab for (about:memory?verbose) open and when you go to a site that you seem to be experiencing the most issue or suspecting to have the issue with, look back to the memory page, refresh it and then look for any zombie compartment created by a JS engine element. You can also try to use the GC (garbage collector) and CC (cycle collector) buttons to see if you can force a scrape to collapse the compartment. Its a problem with how memory is managed in Fx and although great strides have been made towards fixing it, much remains out there and poorly coded addons don't help and some sites using JS code that is poorly coded don't help either. If you want to get more in depth information on how to interpret the data, resolve issues, track and follow bugs try looking up the Memory project under Mozilla Development. Hopefully this has at least pointed you in a direction that can help you in the long run.

edit: I am sorry, I forgot to give you this link to get you started https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink my bad.