[Greasemonkey] Re: Problems with 0.5.1

[Aaron Boodman]

On 9/1/05, Nikolas Coukouma <lists at atrus.org> wrote:
> The most notable thing that suggests preemption is max_script_run_time.

That setting simply kills the js engine after the time elapses. It's
what's responsible for the "a script on the page is unresponsive..."
dialogs. Even if it was implemented on a background thread (which it
doesn't appear to be -
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/source/dom/src/base/nsJSEnvironment.cpp#490)
that isn't the same thing as multithreading at all.