How Script Error Messages Appear
When a script error occurs, you’ll usually see a message like this:
An error has occurred in the script on this page.Warning: Unresponsive script. A script on this page may be busy or may have stopped responding.A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue.
Cause of Script Error Messages
Script error messages are nebulous, and many things can cause these errors. Script errors indicate that a script on the website you’re visiting has malfunctioned in some way. It may have failed to run, failed while running, frozen, or something else may have happened. In most cases, you don’t need to know why a script error happened to fix it. You either have a problem with the web browser, which you can fix, or the script is broken, which you can’t fix.
How to Fix a Script Error
In some cases, the best response to a script error is to ignore it. If you select OK or Cancel in the error message, and the website continues to load without any detectable problems, then the script error is more of a minor nuisance than something you have to worry about. When a script error interferes with the functionality of a website, or these errors become too much of a nuisance, there are several steps you can take to fix the problem.
To force a web page to reload in Windows, press Ctrl+F5.To force a web page to reload in macOS, press Command+Shift+R.
If you see the same error on several devices, there is probably a problem with the website. In that case, all you can do is wait for the web designer to fix the problem. If the script error goes away after disabling plug-ins, re-enable those plug-ins one at a time to determine which plug-in caused the problem. Either continue using the plug-in and live with the script error or stop using that plug-in until the developer fixes the problem. If that doesn’t work, reset the browser settings all at once. You can quickly reset Chrome to its default state, refresh Firefox, reset Microsoft Edge, and reset Safari.
