How do I make the unresponsive script warning come up?

Question

I am making a firefox extension and I have a manual script entry box. I don't want the script to hang the browser when it is run. How can I make an unresponsive script error popup come up if the script runs for longer than a second.

Answer 1

This is controlled by the user by entering about:config in Firefox, and changing the dom.max_script_run_time value.

Answer 2

The long running script prompt cannot be controlled in that way. Firefox automatically shows it after a certain number of JS operations have been done without returning control (it's something around 30 seconds on average).