Having to restart Firefox in between each task

[russell1215]

1- I'm finding I have to close Firefox and restart in order to do another task. If I delete Empty Folders... And then I want to do a Dupe Search, I have to close/reopen before it will do so.

2- For some reason the dupes checking will not include the main Bookmarks Menu. I had to make a temp folder on the Bookmarks Toolbar and move everything from the main Bookmarks Menu to this temp Toolbar folder in order for the add-on to "see them" It doesn't detect anything that exists in the Main Bookmarks Menu.

3- I also receive an error: " Error after removing 946 bookmarks. Error: transaction timeout, most likely caused by unresolved pending work.
** (This extension has been a lifesaver after a particular synchronization app duplicated my bookmarks in exponential numbers. There do, however seem to be a couple of glitches. I'll forward more detail to the developer... ) **

[vaeth]

Hello:

If I delete Empty Folders... And then I want to do a Dupe Search, I have to close/reopen before it will do so.

I tried, but this does not occur here. It probably means that the deletion stucks somewhere, because of some error: Only when the background process of deletion finishes successfully, the buttons are re-enabled. Can you find out the error with DOM inspector? (I am afraid without an error message and being able to reproduce the problem myself, I am unable to fix this error.) If it is the same run in which you receive the timeout error, no DOM inspection is necessary, as this error is then of course the error cause I am looking for:

Error: transaction timeout

Normally (at least, in previous versions of firefox), firefox should not just timeout and tacitly stop the script, but open a window and ask you whether to stop the script (but maybe you changed some configure option to open this window - see below - or firefox behavior has changed it meanwhile). If this window should open, you should press "no", of course, while firefox is still in the process of bookmark deletion. Deleting bookmarks just needs some time, and if firefox thinks that this takes too long and stops the script, there is nothing which the extension can do about - firefox just stops the process, but as remarked above only finishing of the process will re-enable the buttons for the Dupe Search. If in your configuration or new versions of firefox this window should not appear anymore, but just the script is stopped without asking, I am afraid that there is nothing which the extension can do to fix this problem. You may attempt to increase the timeout before firefox stops a script: Type "about:config" and search in the new window for "run_time". In my case, there are three timeout values and one flag: dom.max_chrome_script_run_time dom.max_ext_content_script_run_time dom.max_script_run_time dom_max_script_run_time.require_critical_input Maybe the latter flag is "false" for you is the configuration option which makes the window not open for you? Otherwise, try to increase the other 3 values (I am not sure which one is responsible in this case). The disadvantage of increasing the values is of course that perhaps some evil scripts might have more time to run until they are stopped, so it might worth to increase this values only when you plan to run bookmark-dupes, but this is of course up to you to decide. The other thing you could do is to examine why firefox takes so much time for you for deleting bookmarks that it runs into the timeout in the first place: Normally, several hundred bookmarks should be deleted in a second. If you have other bookmark extensions installed or the "edit bookmark window" open, this could slow down the process of deletion considerably. I had also some (rare) reports from cases where it turned out that the bookmark structure was crippled internally. Best Regards Martin