If you happen to be using TinyMCE and the Prototype library together and you’re getting a ‘too much recursion’ error in FireFox, make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Prototype, which at the time of this post is version 1.5.0. Near as I can tell, the only way to get version 1.5.0 is to either a) check it out of the subversion repository or b) download script.aculo.us, which contains version 1.5.0 in the lib directory of the distribution.

I think the ‘too much recursion’ Prototype / TinyMCE problem happens because Prototype stores a copy of the Array reverse function in a property called _reverse:

Array.prototype._reverse = Array.prototype.reverse;

and then redefines the reverse function, adding a argument ‘inline’:

reverse: function(inline) {
  return (inline !== false ? this : this.toArray())._reverse();
}

Somehow (and I’m not sure how this would happen) the copy happens again, which means that _reverse() would point to the redefined reverse() method function, which of course points to _reverse(), which leads to a infinite loop. Hence, ‘too much recursion’.

Regardless, the changelog from latest version of Prototype has a pointer to issue #3951 (but it doesn’t appear that the issues are public): in short, version 1.5.0 of Prototype does a check to make sure that _reverse() hasn’t been defined:

if (!Array.prototype._reverse)
  Array.prototype._reverse = Array.prototype.reverse;

In related news, if you’re using script.aculo.us with TinyMCE, make sure to embed the script.aculo.us js after the TinyMCE js.