258585 - Ability to break out of a running JavaScript (including during an alert)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61098

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Keirstead]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

This is more of a web-developer oriented request, and may be best done in some
kind of plugin. HOwever, I don't know enough about the Mozilla internal API to
know if a plugin could be made to do what I want.

It would be very *very* nice if you had the ability to break out of a running
JavaScript application on a page, *including* if it is currently showing an
alert box.

Ads a web developer, I cannot count the number of times I have made ome small
typo, causing my browser to just spawn a seemingly endless stream of alerts.
Sometimes this is because of an infinite loop, sometimes, just a very large loop :P

In these situations there is no way to get back to the browser. Either you hold
down enter forever, or you kill it. Being able to CTRL+Break or simmilar would
be a lifesaver.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61098 ***