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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:40:13 +0200
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: John Adams <jna@...tter.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: OT: Firefox question / poll

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:27:59PM -0800, John Adams wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Dave <mrx@...pergander.org.uk> wrote:
> 
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> > On 20/12/2011 17:40, Charles Morris wrote:
> > > I'm curious what everyone's opinion is on the following question... esp.
> > to any FF dev people on list:
> > >
> > > Do you think that the Firefox "warning: unresponsive script" is meant as
> > a security feature or a usability feature?
> >
> >
> It's neither, but could be construed to be a security feature.
>

I doubt it is a real security feature.

Possibly one can refactor the code with the like of setTimeout() and run
the script for arbitrary amount of time.

If it really worked, it might stop some refcount overflows needing loop
to 2^32.

By accident it might probably stop some exploits, don't know.

-- 
j

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