Hi Frank
Do you also encounter the bug on Non-Windows computers?
Non-Windows computers? what are they?
Thanks for pursuing this and pointing me to the bugzilla bug list. The bug does seem to appear on windows computers (not on my university's computer people's nix system).
Joseph
Joseph,
I tried to reproduce this but could not - I installed and uninstalled version 1.3 of Firebug and it took some time (about 2 minutes) to upload a pretty large file (24MB) to my test server but it still worked also with version 1.3 of Firebug.
Do you mean that your browser really freezes (does not respond anyway)? If all settings of moodle, php and apache allow uploading large files and memory limit does not cut uploading in IE the problem might be memory limit of running scripts in Firefox itself.
In Firefox try to
1. Type about:config in Firefox's address bar.
2. Scroll down to the value for dom.max_script_run_time.
3. Change (double click) the value to something higher than the default (for example 100)
Restart firefox and test uploading the large file - take a cup of coffee or tea (or something stronger if you like) and check if nothing has popped up to your site/course files...
Hi Mauno,
Thanks for taking an interest in the current Fire_bug version 1.3 problem... Here is a full description of what happens in my FireFox (version 3.0.6) with Fire_bug version 1.3 installed (running on Windows XP).
See attached screenshots which illustrate the process.
Please note that I am experiencing the problem within Moodle courses, not when downloading files on the Web in general.
In one of my moodle courses (local install, but the problem also occurs on distant moodle sites) I go to Files and try to donwload a file which I have previously uploaded there. Small files usually download OK. So I try with a large file, eg HotPotsWorkshops.zip (27.5 Mo).
#1 The download manager popup window appears and shows download progress, which halts at 25.7 with message "A few seconds remaining". Nothing happens, so #2 I click the Cancel (Annuler) button and immediately after #3 I click the Try again (Réessayer) button. The download quickly resumes and finishes OK.
I have tried your suggestion of increasing dommaxscriptruntime from its original value: 10 to value:100. Things get worse (see screenshot 4: now the downloading process halts even earlier than with old value of 10... (#4)
#5 Then I tried to download another large file, a flash .FLV file. This time the download process does not even start, it freezes on Starting (Démarrage) message. However, clicking the Cancel then the Resume buttons enables the download process to work OK.
If someone a) experiences the same problem and b) can understand it and provide a solution, it would be nice. In the meantime I'll take Mauno's advice and have a cup glass of tea whisky to drown the bug.
Joseph
Have you tried to disable or remove Adblock Plus.
Google and "Adblock crash" or "Adblock freeze" give some examples and it might explain why my Firefox does not freeze...
Strange... I have the same version of firefox (3.0.6) , same version of Firebug (1.3.2 downloaded today) and everything works in different versions of moodle - maybe it is some conflict between more than one plugin (not only Firebug), somehow different environment or some (file) naming conflict?
I could test it with local PC instead of my test server - and if I can reproduce this I could take a cup glass too...
Edit: I have Vista instead of XP but that should not matter...
