Whew, well that took some debugging.
The problem is that illuminate assumes that jQuery doesn't support the box-shadow property, but the newer jQuery version does. That means that when vendor prefixes aren't available (which they aren't in the latest FireFox), you get either an infinite loop or an undefined property. Fortunately illuminate went with an undefined property BoxShadow instead of the infinite loop which would have come from using boxShadow (as I found out, leading to several browser hangs).
So that's the problem, what's the fix? Strip the offending code from illuminate. All cases of support.boxShadow should be changed to simply 'boxShadow', and the cssHooks.boxShadow block removed. You can also delete the bit which sets support.boxShadow in the first place.
My test case is here: http://jsfiddle.net/JbTcs/2/ and works in FireFox and Chrome, and I'm told IE10.
The fixed source code for illuminate is:
/*
* jQuery Illuminate v0.7 - http://www.tonylea.com/
*
* Illuminate elements in jQuery, Function takes the background color of an element
* and illuminates the element.
*
* TERMS OF USE - jQuery Illuminate
*
* Open source under the BSD License.
*
* Currently incompatible with FireFox v.4
*
* Copyright © 2011 Tony Lea
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
* are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
*
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
* conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list
* of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
* provided with the distribution.
*
* Neither the name of the author nor the names of contributors may be used to endorse
* or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY
* EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
* MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
* COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
* EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
* GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED
* AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
* NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
* OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*
* modified version
*
*/
(function($){
$.fn.illuminate = function(options) {
var defaults = {
intensity: '0.05',
color: '',
blink: 'true',
blinkSpeed: '600',
outerGlow: 'true',
outerGlowSize: '30px',
outerGlowColor: ''
};
var options = $.extend(defaults, options);
var original_color = '';
var new_color = '';
var dead = false;
$.fn.illuminateDie = function() {
dead = true;
options.intensity = '0.05';
options.color = '';
options.blink = 'true';
options.blinkSpeed = '600';
options.outerGlow = 'true';
options.outerGlowSize = '30px';
options.outerGlowColor = '';
$(this).css({'boxShadow': '0px 0px 0px', 'background-color': "#" + original_color});
}
function toggleIllumination(obj, original_color, new_color, outerGlow) {
if(rgb2hex(obj.css('background-color')).toUpperCase() == original_color.toUpperCase()) {
obj.animate({"background-color": "#" + new_color, 'boxShadowBlur': outerGlow }, parseInt(options.blinkSpeed),
function(){
if(!dead)
toggleIllumination($(this), original_color, new_color, outerGlow);
});
}
if(rgb2hex(obj.css('background-color')).toUpperCase() == new_color.toUpperCase()) {
obj.animate({"background-color": "#" + original_color, 'boxShadowBlur': '0px' }, parseInt(options.blinkSpeed),
function(){
if(!dead)
toggleIllumination($(this), original_color, new_color, outerGlow);
});
}
}
function colorAdd(hex, percent) {
percentHex = parseInt(Math.round(parseFloat(percent)*16));
return hexAdd(hex[0], percentHex) + hexAdd(hex[1], percentHex) + hexAdd(hex[2], percentHex) + hexAdd(hex[3], percentHex) + hexAdd(hex[4], percentHex) + hexAdd(hex[5], percentHex);
}
function hexAdd(val, val2) {
result = parseInt(val, 16) + val2;
if(result > 15) return 'F';
return result.toString(16).toUpperCase();
}
function rgb2hex(rgb) {
rgb = rgb.match(/^rgb\((\d+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)\)$/);
function hex(x) {
return ("0" + parseInt(x).toString(16)).slice(-2);
}
return hex(rgb[1]) + hex(rgb[2]) + hex(rgb[3]);
}
return this.each(function() {
obj = $(this);
if(obj.is("input")){
if(obj.css('border') == ''){ obj.css('border', 'none') };
}
dead = false;
original_color = rgb2hex(obj.css('background-color'));
if(options.color == ''){
new_color = colorAdd(original_color, options.intensity);
} else {
new_color = options.color.replace('#', '');
}
var BlurColor = '';
if(options.outerGlowColor == ''){
BlurColor = new_color;
} else {
BlurColor = options.outerGlowColor.replace('#', '');
}
obj.css('boxShadow','0px 0px 0px #'+BlurColor);
var firstColor = '';
var firstBlur = '';
if(options.blink == 'true'){
firstColor = original_color;
firstBlur = '0px';
} else {
firstColor = new_color;
firstBlur = options.outerGlowSize;
}
var outerGlow = '';
if(options.outerGlow == 'true'){
outerGlow = options.outerGlowSize;
} else {
outerGlow = '0px';
}
obj.animate({"background-color": "#" + firstColor, 'boxShadowBlur': firstBlur }, parseInt(options.blinkSpeed),
function(){
if(options.blink == 'true')
toggleIllumination($(this), original_color, new_color, outerGlow);
});
});
};
var div = document.createElement('div'),
divStyle = div.style,
support = $.support,
rWhitespace = /\s/,
rParenWhitespace = /\)\s/;
div = null;
function insert_into(string, value, index) {
var parts = string.split(rWhitespace);
parts[index] = value;
return parts.join(" ");
}
$.cssHooks.boxShadowBlur = {
get: function ( elem, computed, extra ) {
return $.css(elem, 'boxShadow').split(rWhitespace)[5];
},
set: function( elem, value ) {
elem.style[ 'boxShadow' ] = insert_into($.css(elem, 'boxShadow'), value, 5);
}
};
$.fx.step[ "boxShadowBlur" ] = function( fx ) {
$.cssHooks[ "boxShadowBlur" ].set( fx.elem, fx.now + fx.unit );
};
})(jQuery);
