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Knowing the temperamental nature of importing, I chose to create a 'temp data' field which has incremental integer in my file to import. Then when firefox suddenly decided to show 'nothing' after the first 150 imports, I could whip in to Safari and run a Search Builder on that field and check progress - and yes, while FF suggested that things might have failed after 3 minutes (only 4% in to the import of 5000+) the Search Builder confirmed that progress was happening, and by simply reordering the 'import integer' column it would give me an update on how many records had gone in - sitting around 3000 of the 5000 as i speak (import completed now with all 5300 done!).

The other advantage of course with that integer field, is that if it does hang, i can quickly assess where it stopped.

I know this won't be a panacea for imports but may be worth the 1 minute of extra work to drop the column in to your data and the field in to civicrm.

Of course if the import does stop at some point, or even if it fully succeeds there is still the issue of getting the error/duplicate reports, but I am pretty sure they can be found at the backend. In this case, I don't need them

ADDENDUM: so while on FF i just observer a wsod when the import 'appears' to time out, in Safari I get the message "Safari can’t open the page." but in both cases the import continues successfully to its conclusion.