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Web Extension version of the Firefox Lightbeam add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/lightbeam/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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There is no obvious way to stop lightbeam from rendering #242

Open telesphore opened 6 years ago

telesphore commented 6 years ago

First, thank you for making this great tool. I did, however, run into a snafu. I had 6 months of data I was trying to look at. (~2500 sites visited & ~4500 sites connected with who knows how many graph edges.) This locked up FF while trying to render the graph. OK, my bad, I have too much data so I can just reset the data. Eventho the reset dialog eventually opened and accepted a click it did not work. It kept on trying to render the graph.

I tried to open the developer tools to see if i could stop the script that way but the console wouldn't open. I waited for ~5 minutes. I eventually just restarted FF and then did a reinstall of lightbeam and things are working now.

It would be nice to have saved the data so that I could look at it without the GUI. Maybe we could have the "reset data" and "save data" buttons preempt the graph rendering?

FF61.0a1

princiya commented 6 years ago

@telesphore Thank you for reporting this issue. We shall look into this and consider your request.