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NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:49 pm
by Hadministratora
Hi All,
I recently decided to start using NoScript. I installed it on my computer as well as on my wife's laptop.
My wife has no issues, however, for me Firefox since to hang randomly and I have to kill the process to recover from the situation.
Since this started happening, Firefox was updated at least 3-4 times. I also created a brand new profile for my self, but it keeps hanging almost on a daily basis.
I uninstalled NoScript and had no issues for around a month. Yesterday, I decided to install it again and I already had at least a couple of hangs.
A little info about the environment: both me and my wife are running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit in a domain environment; the main difference is that I am using a virtual machine and I am accessing it over RDP; Firefox and NoScript are latest versions as of this writing; there are no other extensions installed.
Any ideas? I will appreciate anything you may have to share.
Cheers,
Hadministratora
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:24 pm
by dhouwn
What kind of "hanging"? Total freeze with our without content still displaying? Or just 100% CPU or too high memory consumption leading to too much swapping (hard disk access)?
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:31 pm
by Hadministratora
There is no CPU or memory hogging. The browser just freezes and has to be restarted. Window contents is visible.
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:30 am
by Tom T.
Hadministratora wrote:the main difference is that I am using a virtual machine and I am accessing it over RDP;
Remote Desktop Protocol is like most other MS stuff: There are far better competitors. Try it with a higher-quality VPN or Remote Admin tool.
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:10 am
by Hadministratora
Tom T., while generally speaking you are right, I seriously doubt it has anything to do with it.
First of all, RDP is natively supported on MS platforms, so I don't really want the hassle of dealing with third party replacements.
Next, I didn't post an issue with my virtual computer or desktop experience - I simply don't have any.
Firefox used to work perfectly fine and it will work perfectly fine if I uninstall NoScript. I am just looking for way to be able to use this wonderful add-on.
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:13 am
by Giorgio Maone
Hadministratora wrote:both me and my wife are running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit in a domain environment
Have you got the same Flash Player and Silverlight plugin versions (as reported in about:plugins)?
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:22 pm
by Hadministratora
Good question, Giorgio - haven't check this before.
But now that I checked - yes, it is exact same version to the last number.
Shockwave Flash
Version: 11.1.102.55
Silverlight Plug-In
Version: 5.0.61118.0
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:34 pm
by Giorgio Maone
If I was you I'd try with a clean
profile and just NoScript installed (to excude configuration-specific causes), and possibly disable graphic acceleration ( layers.acceleration.disabled in
about:config).
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:50 pm
by Alan Baxter
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:48 pm
by Hadministratora
Giorgio, the clean profile was my first idea to get around this and I am already running like this for 2-3 months.
layers.acceleration.disabled is already true. Not sure how it happened as it says "user set".
Alan, thank you very much for the vulnerability note! I will update it right away.
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:16 pm
by Giorgio Maone
Hadministratora wrote:
layers.acceleration.disabled is already true. Not sure how it happened as it says "user set".
On both the machines? If not, please switch it back to false.
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:45 pm
by dhouwn
what about gfx.direct2d.disabled?
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:59 pm
by Hadministratora
Isn't that interesting?!
Both gfx.direct2d.disabled and layers.acceleration.disabled were "true" (user set) on my PC and both were "false" (default) on my wife's laptop.
I switched them both to false and restarted the browser - we'll see how it goes.
Thank you all for the suggestions!
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:17 am
by Hadministratora
Bad news - it is still happening.
And as you can see just a few hours later. It is the second time for today btw.
Re: NoScript makes Firefox unresponsive
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:09 am
by therube