FFixer

By Vaughan Chandler — Last update Mar 9, 2011 — Installed 14,796,134 times.

Browser Hanging BUG

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Jul 16, 2009 8:50pm
Royal2000H Scriptwright
FirefoxWindows

I realized that Facebook Fixer causes the browser to slow to a crawl and hang for at least 10 seconds when facebook loads a large amount of pictures.

For Example, when you select "Invite Friends" in an event or group, and the sudo popup comes up to select friends.... The browser hangs when Facebook Fixer is active. If you deactivate the script, there is no hang.

Please look into this.

Roy
 
Jul 17, 2009 4:50am
Vaughan Chan... Script's Author
FirefoxX11

Hi Roy, I have not been able to reproduce this problem so I'm not sure how to go about fixing it yet. I will keep working on it, but in the mean time if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled you can do the following:

Before going to the page to invite friends press L (shift + l). This will stop Facebook Fixer from checking for changes on the page and should prevent the slow down. Once you are finished (or possibly even once the page has finished loading) you can press L again to fully re-enable the script.

I realize this is not ideal but it should at least minimize the annoyance until I can solve it.
 
Jul 24, 2009 8:40am
Royal2000H Scriptwright
FirefoxWindows

Vaughan,
Thanks for responding so quickly. I haven't looked you up on Facebook, so I don't know how many friends you have. I have almost 800 friends, and the lightbox-popup for invites is undoubtedly a process that takes resources. If you have less friends, I would assume it wouldn't hang, and I'd predict someone with 2000 friends would have an even bigger issue. Honestly, I'm stunned it doesn't hang without Facebook Fixer, as the list + pictures must take up memory. For some reason though, it does hang for me when greasemonkey is enabled.
 
Jul 29, 2009 1:39am
Royal2000H Scriptwright
FirefoxWindows

An even better example is the application, Are You Interested.
I've used the app a couple of times and saw that the browser freezes sometimes when Facebook Fixer is enabled.

If I disable greasemonkey, there are no freezes.
MOST Importantly: When it does freeze, Firefox pops up saying that a script is taking too long and that I can stop it or let it try running. The "faulty" script it points to is greasemonkey/facebook-fixer
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